October 24, 2012
Malaysia's (ex-)Missing Police Chief
by John Berthelsen (10-22-12)@http://www.asiasentinel.com
What did Musa Hassan know, as well as when did he know it, as well as did he intend to discuss it it?
What happened to Musa Hassan upon his approach to Bangkok if indeed he was going? The late National Police Chief was pronounced to be giving a press conference with "new revelations" in a 2006 murder-for-hire of Mongolian beauty Altantuya Shaariibuu by dual chosen bodyguards for then-defense apportion Najib Tun Razak.
But within an hour after a Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand sent out a press recover announcing a event, scheduled for currently during noon, someone called as well as cancelled it.
Musa was quoted in a Kuala Lumpur-based Star every day newspaper observant he would be in Kuala Lumpur currently as well as that "I am not giving any press conference upon any matter. we want those swelling such lies to stop it immediately."
Was this a box similar to that of Wang Lijun, a Chongqing Police Chief who done a rarely publicized run for a US Embassy in Chengdu in February this year with sum of a crimes of his boss, Chongqing Mayor Bo Xilai? That is a box that has shaken Chinese governing body to a core.
Pursued by a fibre of Police cars, Wang stayed in a US Embassy long enough to raise suspicions across a nation about a misdoings of Bo as well as his wife, Gu Kailai, as well as afterwards passed upon sum to a supervision in Beijing.
Gu Kailai has been convicted of attempted murder as well as sentenced to prison. Bo has been kicked out of a Chinese politburo as well as evidently will stand hearing someday after a Communist Party congress finishes in early November. Wang! himself has been sentenced to prison.
In a FCCT press release, it was voiced that after Altantuya's genocide "it was suggested that she had been related to a sale of dual French-made submarines to Malaysia for US$ 1.3 billion a deal underneath complicated guess of high-level corruption. The stream Malaysian PM, Najib Razak, was afterwards Minister of Defense as well as a inhabitant military arch was Musa Hassan. The revelations shook a Malaysian political landscape."
The situation stays intensely mysterious. Unlike that of Wang Lijun, it has received little discuss in Malaysia's mainstream media, all of that have been owned by pro-government political parties.
"Nobody's observant anything," pronounced another Kuala Lumpur source. "It's similar to it never happened."
As Malaysia's National Police Chief, Musa is closely familiar with all of a sum of a attempted murder of a 28-year-old Altantuya. But, sources in Kuala Lumpur say, suspicions that he might deliver pale allegations of Najib's impasse in a box have been probably unfounded.
The poser "hasn't done much, if any, stroke as nonetheless upon a Malaysian scene," a maestro political observer in Kuala Lumpur said. "There is so much spin starting upon from both sides, a public is sceptical. Furthermore, Musa has denied it as well as many people we spoke with consider that this was probably only an Anwar spin," a reference to Opposition personality Anwar Ibrahim. "I don't consider it's starting to have a same stroke as Wang as well as Bo Xilai. It's only another day in Malaysia's gutter politicking."
However, Musa appears to have been during slightest disaffected by a political environment, another source said. The Police Chief, who late during age 60, reportedly was betrothed a plum pursuit as Malaysian High Commissioner to Brunei. When he didn't get it, he was forced to take a teaching job.
Local media reported earlier that Musa has been flirting with Parti Islam se-Malaysia, a fundamentalist Islamic me! mber of a three-party Opposition. Musa, however, has publicly denied he intended to stick upon PAS. A source with Pakatan Rakyat told Asia Sentinel Musa had met with a tip personality of PAS several months ago, though that a former Police Chief had no interest in governing body as well as that it was unlikely he would join. He himself told The Star currently he had no intention of fasten any parties.
Musa late upon September thirteen after 41 years of service, a final 6 as National Police Chief. He has long been a argumentative figure, having been investigated himself upon allegations of corruption, particularly over a recover of 3 members of illegal betting syndicates. Reform critics have accused him of using his military energy to frustrate investigations into crime as well as to protect absolute total in a government.
The episode additionally calls up one in Jul 2008 when a Kuala Lumpur-based 
private investigator, P. Balasubramaniam, retracted an bomb sworn matter alleging that Najib was involved with Altantuya before she became a mistress of Abdul Razak Baginda, Najib's best friend. Instead, Balasubramaniam pronounced he had done his strange matter underneath compulsion from Anwar's associates. He afterwards fled a country, still after observant he had recanted underneath compulsion as well as had been offering RM5 million to shut up by Deepak Jaikishan, a conjectural commercial operation partner of Najib's wife,. Rosmah Mansor.
Last week Musa dropped a 2008 defamation fit opposite Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim after Anwar accused him as well as Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail of conspiring to cover up a 1998 earthy attack that left a then-imprisoned Anwar with a black eye as well as a permanent behind problem.
The dropping of a fit additionally f! ueled sp eculation that Musa was relocating towards a truce with a opposition. However, an antithesis personality pronounced a PR care was convinced he dropped a fit because he knew he wouldn't be able to win it.
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