INTERVIEW Almost five years after fleeing the country, the widow of private eye P Balasubramaniam, A Santamil Selvi, has given her first interview to the media.

She was driven to do so, Selvi said, after receiving anonymous phone calls offering her money and education opportunities for her children in exchange for "evidence" that PKR paid her late husband to make his infamous statutory declarations.

This was in addition to an SMS hoax last month that she would hold a press conference to declare that her husband, Balasubramaniam, had been paid off by lawyers, Selvi told Malaysiakini and KiniTV last Friday...