The 133 official documents uploaded onto this website are from the
Directorate-General of the French National Police and the Judicial
Police Directorate’s anti-organized and financial crimes unit.
They were presented to a French anti-corruption court in May and June of
2011. Taken together, they present –in French – the clearest picture to
date of the two-decade campaign by the French state-owned defense
manufacturer DCN and its subsidiaries to sell Scorpene submarines to the
Malaysian Ministry of Defense.
Asia Sentinel’s story
summarizing what is in the documents is in a collection in Asia
Sentinel's Scribd account. They tell a story of corruption on both sides
of the world that included – according to one presentation to the court
– “blackmail, bribery, influence peddling, misuse of corporate assets
and concealment.”
The documents show that many of these activities were carried out with
the full knowledge if not connivance of top officials in both the French
and Malaysian governments.
There is considerable doubt in Malaysia that these documents actually exist,
and that the story of corruption was fabricated by the opposition
Pakatan Rakyat coalition. Here is proof that they exist indeed. Readers
who speak French may examine them at their leisure.
The documents were sent anonymously to Asia Sentinel because of our
persistence in cataloguing the story of the submarines since October
2006, when Altantuya Shaariibuu, a 28-year-old Mongolian party girl and
translator of sorts, was murdered in a patch of jungle near the suburban
city of Shah Alam and her body was blown to bits with C4 explosives.
It subsequently became apparent that Altantuya had accompanied Abdul
Razak Baginda, the head of Malaysian Strategic Services and a close
associate of then-Defense Minister Najib Tun Razak, to Paris and Brest
during final negotiations for the contract to train Malaysian sailors
and to maintain the submarines once they arrived in Malaysia.
Although the documents indicate French authorities found no record that
Altantuya had ever entered France, Asia Sentinel ran a series of
pictures of her in Pars in front of the Louis Vuitton Paris shop, the
Arc de Triomphe, the Cathedral of Notre Dame and other locations. The story and pictures, which ran on Dec. 5, 2007, can be foundhere:
RM100k to kill Altantuya
Two of Najib’s bodyguards – one of whom said in a formal statement that
they were to be paid RM100,000 to kill the woman – were convicted of
murder, but the courts carefully stayed away from identifying who had
ordered her death.
The case eventually spread to France, where lawyers led by William
Bourdon were engaged by the Malaysian NGO Suaram to attempt to get to
the bottom of the case. Their efforts led French anti- corruption police
to raid the offices of DCN and its subsidiaries.
Thousands of documents were seized, along with computers and vast stores
of documents and files. For the better part of two months, prosecutors
detailed the evidence in a French courtroom.
They will stay on the Asia Sentinel website as a public service for
readers to compile their own evidence of a scandal that infected two
governments.
Asia Sentinel
malaysians must know the truth
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