Who Is Behind Kor Vigilante & Penguatkuasaan Kawasan Sungai Buloh?

From Malay Mail.

It apparently is a Sungai Buloh New Village mystery. No one that the Malay Mail Probe team spoke to could shed any light on Kor Vigilante & Penguatkuasaan Kawasan Sungai Buloh.

Located on the first floor of a shophouse in the village, the corps is also known as Perkhidmatan Tindakan Cemas Malaysia (Emergency Action Forces of Malaysia).

We stumbled onto the outfit when we were checking out stories about illegal immigrant workers in the village. We decided to check it out since we had not heard of such a force. We visited the office several times over a one-month period but the office was locked during the different times of the weekdays and weekends that we went there.

Traders in the area said they too had wondered about it as they had not seen anyone entering or leaving the office. One of them laughed when told we wanted to join the outfit. “That would be a waste of time. If you have any problem in your neighbourhood, call the police,” he said when given a concocted tale that a residents’ association wanted the corps’ help to weed out criminal activities in its neighbourhood.

***** Who are these self-proclaimed 'vigilantes'? It's surprising that the cops stationed at Sungei Buloh are not aware of the presence of these mysterious characters. Perhaps they are too busy guarding sodomy victims and investigating those who make sensational statutory declarations.

Malaysian Police On Global Manhunt For Investigator Who Stirred Politics With Sex Claim

Malaysian police launched an international manhunt Sunday for a private detective who went missing after retracting a claim suggesting links between the deputy prime minister and a slain Mongolian woman.

Balasubramaniam Perumal is believed to have gone into hiding, or is being hidden by unidentified parties, Malaysian Criminal Investigation Department director Bakri Zinin told reporters.

His disappearance has added to the bizarre political drama that has played out in Malaysia since March 8 general elections, when the ruling part was dealt a severe setback. Since then, both sides have traded allegations of sexual misconduct, conspiracies and assassination plots.

Balasubramaniam dropped a political bombshell on Thursday by stating in a sworn declaration that he was told Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak had sex with Altantuya Shaariibuu, a 28-year-old Mongolian translator who was shot and killed Oct. 19, 2006.

Shaariibuu's body was blown up with explosives in a forest outside Kuala Lumpur.

Bakri urged Balasubramaniam to come out of hiding, saying he has nothing to fear. "I give a guarantee of his safety if he comes to meet us. And he is free to bring a lawyer to the meeting," he said. "The police in the country have been put on alert to find him. We have informed Interpol ... as well as the police in neighboring countries," said Bakri.

Balasubramaniam made the claim about Najib at a news conference with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. He said the source of his information was Abdul Razak Baginda, a prominent political analyst who is on trial on charges of abetting the woman's murder. Abdul Razak is a close friend of Najib.

But less than 24 hours later, Balasubramaniam withdrew the statement, claiming he made it under duress. He issued a fresh statement Friday that said his earlier statement was false and that Abdul Razak never told him about any links between Najib and Shaariibuu.

Soon afterward, Balasubramaniam, his wife and three young children disappeared and could not be reached on their mobile phones, said N. Surendran, a lawyer for Balasubramaniam's nephew. The nephew, R. Kumaresan, lodged a report with police over the disappearance of his uncle and family.

"We are investigating all the reports ... we are seeking the public's help to find Balasubramaniam because even the (nephew) ... is not giving us his full cooperation," Bakri said.

Najib and Anwar are vying to be Malaysia's next prime minister and both face accusations that could destroy their political careers. Anwar has been accused of sodomizing his male aide. Both Najib and Anwar have denied the allegations. (International Herald Tribune)

***** Where oh where has this Bala guy gone to? One assumption that we can make is that, if the cops are looking high and low for him, then probably it is not Najib who is hiding him. Or is he?

PI Balasubramaniam And Family Missing. Nephew Lodges Police Report

From The Star Update

R. Kumaresan, nephew of private investigator P. Balasubramaniam, lodged a police report in Brickfields here on Saturday over the disappearance of his uncle, aunt and their three children.

Kumaresan said it was unusual for calls to his uncle to go unanswered. He added that Balasubramaniam and his family had been in communicado after the private investigator made a new statutory declaration, retracting his original statutory declaration on Friday.

In the first statutory declaration, Balasubramaniam had claimed that police omitted vital information, allegedly linking Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case.

On Friday, Balasubramaniam revealed in a second statutory declaration that he was “compelled to affirm the (first) statutory declaration dated July 1, 2008 under duress”.

***** For such are the uncertainties of life. Two days ago this guy was a free bird with probably no great worries. Then he goes and makes a statutory declaration which sent the nation into shock and followed it up with a second one which reverberated throughout the country and beyond.

Now the guy has gone missing with his family. His nephew could possibly be fearing the worst and may even get visions of exploding C4. So where the hell can Bala and his family have disappeared to? Any guesses?
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