Thank you for joining the live webcast of the press conference. KeADILan Vice President Sivarasa Rasiah (MP for Subang) and lawyer for P. Balasubramaniam, Americk Sidhu’s statements are below.

— PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BY AMERICK SINGH SIDHU —

4 July 2008, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

I have been made to understand that Mr. Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal has issued a statutory declaration at a press conference held at the Prince Hotel at 11.00 am this morning, retracting his earlier statutory declaration affirmed on the 1st July 2008.

The reason given for this retraction is that his original statutory declaration, recorded by myself, was “compelled to be affirmed under duress”.

No details of this alleged compulsion and duress have been put forth.  Mr. Bala is reported as not answering when asked this morning in his press conference who was it who intimidated him.

For the record, I confirm that the statutory declaration affirmed by Mr.Bala on 1st July 2008 which he released yesterday was affirmed voluntarily before a commissioner for oaths Dr. T. Yokheswarem and in my presence.

I first met Mr. Bala in the presence of a few other persons in a restaurant about two months ago where he asked me to assist with preparing a formal document incorporating some evidence that had not been presented in the ongoing Altantuya trial.  I started the process about two weeks after that.  I would have met him a few times where I recorded in long hand, what Mr. Bala told me.

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Tarikh: 5 Julai 2008 (Sabtu)

Tempat: Tapak Expo Pertanian, Seberang Jaya.

Masa: 8.30 mlm

Penceramah: Ketua Menteri YB Lim Guan Eng, YB Hadi Awang, YB Dato Zahrain, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim

Untuk Dihubungi: Rizal 017-409 7702

De facto PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim today revealed that the threat on his life was serious enough for someone to give him a bullet-proof vest.While he denied that he wore the bullet-proof vest at the 10,000-strong rally in Kampung Baru on April 14, Anwar said his wife, PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail ticked him off for not taking such threats more seriously.

“Azizah is, of course, very annoyed with me. She said, ‘Please take precautions.’ I promise her, yes, I will do it probably at public functions when necessary,” he told Malaysiakini in a 30-minute interview this morning at the PKR headquarters.

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Sebelah pagi nya jadual saya dipenuhi dengan beberapa urusan yang penting. Di antaranya saya diwawancarai oleh Malaysiakini dan The Sun. Kemudiannya sekitar jam 11.50 pagi, satu sidang akhbar di Ibu Pejabat Parti telah berlangsung, yang mana saya mendedahkan bukti-bukti baru berkaitan Kes Altantuya.

Saya berharap media tempatan bersikap adil, bebas dan berani untuk melaporkan pendedahan ini! Lewat petang sempat saya meluangkan masa dengan Azizah dan cucu tersayang. Gembira bila ada sedikit peluang untuk bersama isteri dan cucu. Udara nyaman Bukit Segambut kembali menyegarkan saya. Rehat diperlukan agar membolehkan saya terus berjuang untuk Malaysia yang bebas dan adil.

ANWAR IBRAHIM