Prime Minister Najib Razak is expected to be grilled in Parliament when sitting resumes on June 11 over the allegation on the sale of the country's defence secrets.
Opposition MP Nurul Izzah Anwar will move an emergency motion to debate the alleged sale of a highly-classified Royal Malaysian Navy document to a French defence company.
In a statement yesterday, the PKR Lembah Pantai MP (right) said her emergency motion reads:
“To debate on the expose of illegal commissions and sale of national defence secret documents in regard to the Scorpene submarines, as revealed by Suaram in Bangkok on May 30, 2012, which threatens national security and sovereignty.”
On Wednesday, French lawyer Joseph Breham, counsel for human rights NGO Suaram in its corruption case against French shipbuilder DCNS, revealed that the company had paid 36 million euro (RM142 million) to Terasasi (Hong Kong) Ltd, ostensibly for "commercial engineering" works.
Breham (left) said French investigative judges probing the case had inquired what those payments were for and had demanded reports of financial transactions from the company, when they discovered the secret document.
"It was a secret document by the Malaysian Navy - an evaluation for the order of the submarines, which is a highly confidential report," he told journalists at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand in Bangkok.
Two of the Terasasi directors are Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's close ally Abdul Razak Baginda and his father Abdul Malim Baginda.
In a statement yesterday, the PKR Lembah Pantai MP (right) said her emergency motion reads:“To debate on the expose of illegal commissions and sale of national defence secret documents in regard to the Scorpene submarines, as revealed by Suaram in Bangkok on May 30, 2012, which threatens national security and sovereignty.”
On Wednesday, French lawyer Joseph Breham, counsel for human rights NGO Suaram in its corruption case against French shipbuilder DCNS, revealed that the company had paid 36 million euro (RM142 million) to Terasasi (Hong Kong) Ltd, ostensibly for "commercial engineering" works.
Breham (left) said French investigative judges probing the case had inquired what those payments were for and had demanded reports of financial transactions from the company, when they discovered the secret document."It was a secret document by the Malaysian Navy - an evaluation for the order of the submarines, which is a highly confidential report," he told journalists at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand in Bangkok.
Two of the Terasasi directors are Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's close ally Abdul Razak Baginda and his father Abdul Malim Baginda.
'Najib must respond'
Nurul Izzah said the people have the right to demand that Najib (below) issues an immediate statement on this matter.
“If it is true, then it not only places the operations of the Scorpene submarines, but also other possible defence secrets that may have been sold to foreign agents, at risk.
“If there is failure to immediately respond to this allegation, then the citizens of Malaysia must be prepared that the national security and sovereignty of the nation has been compromised,” the PKR vice-president added.
“If it is true, then it not only places the operations of the Scorpene submarines, but also other possible defence secrets that may have been sold to foreign agents, at risk.
“If there is failure to immediately respond to this allegation, then the citizens of Malaysia must be prepared that the national security and sovereignty of the nation has been compromised,” the PKR vice-president added.
Last month, Suaram revealed that French prosecution papers also included a fax allegedly showing that Najib had asked for US$1 billion (RM3 billion) for local company Perimekar from French shipmaker DCN's subsidiary DCNI, as a condition for a meeting with him on July 14, 2001.
Abdul Razak Baginda also owns Perimekar.
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