Private investigator P Balasubramaniam passed away in Rawang this afternoon, apparently after suffering a heart attack.
He checked out of the Sime Darby Medical Centre on Tuesday, but suffered breathing difficulties when having lunch at his home in Rawang about 1.40pm.
He checked out of the Sime Darby Medical Centre on Tuesday, but suffered breathing difficulties when having lunch at his home in Rawang about 1.40pm.
“After a medical check-up in Subang Jaya (this morning), Bala came back like normal. Then after lunch, he had something like hiccups, and then he collapsed.
“We rushed him to a clinic, the ambulance came, but the doctors said he had passed way,” said Bala's friend Ganeson Suppiah, who added that he was with Bala at that time.
Ganeson said the doctors said Bala was already dead by the time he was taken to the clinic, and efforts to resuscitate him were in vain.
“We rushed him to a clinic, the ambulance came, but the doctors said he had passed way,” said Bala's friend Ganeson Suppiah, who added that he was with Bala at that time.
Ganeson said the doctors said Bala was already dead by the time he was taken to the clinic, and efforts to resuscitate him were in vain.
An ambulance from Sungai Buloh Hospital, that had been called, arrived soon afterwards.
"He was due to have a heart bypass operation in about two weeks," lawyer and Subang parliamentarian R Sivarasa told Malaysiakini while on his way to the hospital.
Last month Balasubramaniam suffered a minor heart attack while he was speaking at a Pakatan Rakyat ceramah in Kota Bharu.
Following a medical checkup on his return to Kuala Lumpur, he was warded for 10 days at the Sime Darby Medical Centre in Subang Jaya.
The 53-year-old gave his last interview to Malaysiakini on Monday.
'Okay with man upstairs'
During that interview, believed to be his last with any media, the late Bala appeared to be in high spirits, adamant that he would still continue to help Pakatan in their election campaigning despite his heart condition, calling it "a small thing".
Appearing slightly pale when met at the cardiac ward of a private Selangor hospital last Monday, Bala still managed a smile and said that he would go back on the GE campaign circuit after he recovers.
He joked that he was okay with "the man upstairs" and that the spirit of Mongolian interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu still does not want him to die.
Appearing slightly pale when met at the cardiac ward of a private Selangor hospital last Monday, Bala still managed a smile and said that he would go back on the GE campaign circuit after he recovers.He joked that he was okay with "the man upstairs" and that the spirit of Mongolian interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu still does not want him to die.
He said he was still needed to expose the truth about his involvement with and knowledge of those whom he believe are responsible for her murder.
In the interview Bala urged Malaysians to vote for a change of government as this is the only way that justice can be found for Altantuya and the two policemen whom he believed were wrongly blamed for her death.
In the interview Bala urged Malaysians to vote for a change of government as this is the only way that justice can be found for Altantuya and the two policemen whom he believed were wrongly blamed for her death.
He added that his dramatic return to Malaysia was a blessing as he otherwise would not have discovered his heart condition.
"This is good. If I didn't come back for the campaign, I might not have known (about my heart condition).
"I might have stayed in India. I might have died silently."
[More to follow]
BALA'S LAST INTERVIEW
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