KUALA LUMPUR: Private investigator P Balasubramaniam(Pic), who rocked the nation which his statutory declarations on the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, has passed away.
Both PKR vice-president N Surendran and Subang MP R Sivarasa confirmed this.
“I am on my way to the Sungai Buloh Hospital. I don’t have the details as yet,” Sivarasa told FMT.
He said, via Twitter, that Balasubramaniam passed away in a clinic in Rawang which he went to after suffering from breathing difficulties.
“He was scheduled for a bypass surgery in about three weeks. Pending medication and treatment, Balasubramaniam had a follow-up with his doctors this morning in SJMC and looked fine. Unfortunately, he had breathing difficulties at about 1.30pm,” he wrote.
His remains have now been taken to his house in Rawang.
Balasubramaniam suffered heart problems on March 5 and was admitted to the Subang Jaya Medical Centre. He was discharged on March 12.
In his first statutory declaration, he had implicated Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor in the murder of Altantuya.
He then retracted his allegation in a second SD, following which he left the country.
Upon his return recently, Balasubramaniam swore on the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita that the contents of his first SD was true.
Only on Tuesday, Bala told FMT that he would rest for at least a month following his mild heart attack last week, putting the breaks on the opposition’s plans for his nationwide ceramah before the 13th general election.
He had said he may still have to undergo major heart surgery, saying that he would have to return to the hospital today (Friday).
“It was a sudden, mild attack, and the doctors told me that three of my vessels are blocked, so I may have to go for a major operation. This Friday, the doctors will redo the tests on me and decide whether I have to undergo heart operation or just a stenting,” Balasubramaniam had said then.
Since his return to Malaysia, he had been involved in PKR roadshows to implicate Najib with Altantuya.
