MACC: Insufficient evidence on Bala's bribery claims

The deputy public prosecutor (DPP) has found a lack of evidence to charge any party following private investigator P Balasubramaniam’s complaints of bribery, said the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

MACC sent their reply to Bala’s lawyer Americk Sidhu on Nov 8 following the investigator’s demand that the commission respond to his complaints.

According to Americk (left), MACC in their terse reply said they had “conducted a thorough investigation” and had submitted their findings to the DPP for their “scrutiny and advice”.

MACC said, “The deputy public prosecutor has examined the totality of the evidence but finds that there was lack of evidence to charge any person with any criminal offence.”

Bala had given MACC an ultimatum to respond to his complaint that parties had attempted to bribe him to implicate PKR leaders, over the matter of his statutory declaration (SD) on the murder of Mongolian interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu.

Currently in hiding in India fearing for his safety, Balasubramaniam last week threatened to release details of attempts to bribe him in relation to his 2008 SD linking Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to Altantuya.

In the three-paragraph reply, MACC added that its review panel agreed with the DPP’s conclusions.

“This findings of the investigations and decision was tabled to the operation review panel of MACC, an oversight committee consisting of prominent members of civil society on Nov 8, 2012. 

“The panel concurred with the findings and conclusion reached,” concluded the letter.