THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Malaysia Today
Datuk K.S. Nallakaruppan and Dato’ Muhammad Shafee Abdullah were behind the conspiracy to frame Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim on sodomy charges back in 1998. This was confirmed by Nalla’s driver, Thagarajoo a/l Thangavelu, in a Statutory Declaration signed on 21 August 2008.
This latest revelation puts to rest, once and for all, the speculation as to the real dalang behind the 1998 conspiracy. It appears like these same players are also involved in the latest sodomy allegation, dubbed as ‘Sodomy 2’, as revealed by Malaysia Today in an earlier report.
Rajoo also confirmed that Shafee coached him on what to say and that his coached ‘statement’ was tape-recorded. Rajoo was also summoned to Bukit Aman by the current IGP, Tan Sri Musa Hassan, who was then in charge of the case, and subsequently was brought to meet Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad so that he can repeat what he had been instructed to tell the Prime Minister.
The text and scanned versions of the Statutory Declaration can be read below. In the meantime, let us ‘flashback’ to what happened during Anwar’s trial in 1998-1999.
Azizan Abu Bakar’s cross-examination by Christopher Fernando on 7 December 1998
Q: Did you tell the police that you were sodomised in 1994?
A: No.
Q: Who fabricated that evidence?
A: I don’t know.
Q: Did you tell the police you were sodomised in 1992?
A: No.
Q: Who told the police you were sodomised in 1992?
A: I don’t know.
Q: Who fabricated this evidence?
A: I don’t know.
Q: The date 1992 is false?
A: Yes.
Q: I put it to you that the charge had to be amended to 1993 because the building was not even ready for occupation?
A: I don’t know.
Q: Were you told to change the date to 1993?
A: Yes.
Q: Did you agree to this proposition?
A: Yes.
Q: Who asked you to change the date to 1993?
A: SAC Musa bin Hassan.
Q: I put it to you: it was because DSAI did not do anything to you. That is why you kept visiting him between 1992-1997. Otherwise you would have kept far away from him.
A: Yes, it’s true.
The interpreter repeated the question.
Again his answer was, "Yes, it’s true but I don’t understand the words ‘did not do anything’."
The court then interrupted, "Perhaps you had better be more specific".
Christopher Fernando: I will.
Q: I put it to you that DSAI DID NOT sodomise you. That is why you kept visiting him and his family between 1992-1997.
A: I agree that he did not sodomise me. That is why I continued to visit him between 1992-1997.
STATUTORY DECLARATION
I, THAGARAJOO A/L THANGAVELU (NRIC No. 590821-10-6033) a Malaysian citizen of legal age and residing at No. 20, Jalan BK 4/1F, Bandar Kinrara, 47100 Puchong, Selangor Darul Ehsan do solemnly and sincerely affirm and say as follows:-
(1) I am a Driver by profession.
(2) Sometime in 1995, I commenced employment with one Datuk K.S. Nallakaruppan (“Datuk Nalla”) as his driver. During the course of my employment with him, over a period of about five (5) years, I became privy to many events and incidents involving Datuk Nalla, primarily that involving his friendship with Datuk Seri Anwar Bin Ibrahim (“DSAI”). They were close personal friends.
(3) During my initial years of employment with Datuk Nalla, I frequented a house in Jalan Tunku, Bukit Tunku, Kuala Lumpur, which was tenanted by Datuk Nalla. The owner of the said house was Dato’ Muhammad Shafee Abdullah (“Dato’ Shafee”). Datuk Nalla kept the said house as a guesthouse for his friends to use. This house was tenanted for about 1½ years. Later, Datuk Nalla tenanted a condominium at Tivoli Villa.
(4) Sometime in 1998, I was called by Dato’ Shafee to his office. It was a one-to-one meeting which lasted about an hour. Dato’ Shafee asked me to relate the happenings at the said tenanted house. I did so, as I was instructed by my boss, Datuk Nalla, to cooperate in every manner possible. My conversation with Dato’ Shafee was tape-recorded. During the course of the meeting, Dato’ Shafee stopped the tape-recording on four (4) to five (5) occasions. With the tape-recorder switched off, I would be told to say things to implicate DSAI in sex scandals with various women. Upon resumption of the recording, I narrated to Dato’ Shafee as instructed.
(5) On 21st August, 1998 (I remember the date vividly as it was my birthday) I was called to Bukit Aman by Tan Sri Musa Hassan (now the IGP) and thereafter two (2) police officers brought me to meet Tun (then Dato’ Seri) Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, the then Prime Minister of Malaysia. The meeting lasted about one (1) hour. I was asked to relate to Dr Mahathir of what I knew of DSAI’s movements and doings. I did so as I was assured I would be protected and financially rewarded. On no occasion did I say anything about DSAI’s private meetings with any male acquaintance as there were none.
(6) I make this Statutory Declaration as there now appears to be a sinister attempt by some parties to conspire against DSAI on similar allegations as in 1998 which I strongly and firmly believe are not true at all.
And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declaration Act, 1960
SUBSCRIBED and SOLEMNLY DECLARED )
by the abovenamed THAGARAJOO A/L )
THANGAVELU at Kuala Lumpur in the )
State of Wilayah Persekutuan )
This 21st day of August 2008 )
Before me,
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