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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Scorpene broker: Altantuya never part of the deal


The architect of the Scorpene deal Jasbir Singh Chahl has said that murdered Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibbuu was never an interpreter for the submarine deal nor was she ever involved in the contract.

In an interview in New Straits Times today, Jasbir said whatever affair Altantuya had with defence analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, a central figure in the deal, was a personal matter.

"His dealings with her had nothing to do with the Scorpene deal. It's unfortunate that it (the affair) coincided with our (submarine deal) timeline.

"Abdul Razak was the only common denominator in this. He was the only link, and a tenuous one, at best," he was quoted as saying.

Altantuya, said to be a French interpreter for Abdul Razak, was on October 2006 found shot dead and blown up with C4 explosives in Shah Alam.

Two police officers with the elite Special Action Unit (UTK), chief inspector Azilah Hadri and corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, who were assigned to then Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak as bodyguards, were convicted for her murder.

She had allegedly been harassing Abdul Razak for a US$500,000 cut from the Scorpene deal. Abdul Razak, a confidante of Najib, was cleared of her murder.

However, Jasbir argued that records by the French authorities showed that Altantuya had never entered France between 1999 and 2006.

"This is not what I am saying, you understand. This is what the relevant French authorities are saying," he was quoted as saying.

He added that he too had never met her before and that he only found out about Altantuya after he read about her death in the newspapers.

‘Not bribery’

He also denied that the RM452 million paid to Perimekar Sdn Bhd from the deal was bribery.

Jasbir said the payment was for various services rendered by the company, which among others included project management and integration services and coordination works to ensure they meet the Malaysian government's expectations.

"We've been made out to look like profiteers who just sat back and collected when, in fact, there was a lot of hard, tangible work, that was done," he was quoted as saying.

Perimekar Sdn Bhd is owned by Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT), Boustead Holdings Bhd and KS Ombak Laut Sdn Bhd which is owned by Abdul Razak.

Suaram has filed a case in France against French naval company DCNS over the alleged kickbacks and the probe is still ongoing in Paris.

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