The prime minister's younger brother Nazim Razak and businessman Deepak Jaikishan have already been questioned by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) over their alleged involvement in private investigator P Balasubramaniam's controversial statutory declarations, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz said today.

nazri abdul aziz However when pressed for details by reporters at Parliament, Nazri refused to comment, saying: "I said, we have, we have, that's it".

Earlier in the House he had answered a question from Tian Chua (PKR-Batu) on the status of the investigations into Balasubramaniam's allegations .

p balasubramaniam private investigator altantuya murder case "Right now the stumbling block is that we don't have Balasubramaniam's testimony. We don't know where he is. We can't proceed without his testimony," he said.

Last year, Balasubramaniam (left) had alleged that Deepak, a director of a company dealing in carpets, had played a role in urging the private investigator to withdraw a damning July 2008 statutory declaration which drew a link between Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and Mongolian national Altantuya Shaarriibuu.

A day later, Balasubramaniam issued another statutory declaration which disclaimed the veracity of the first, and promptly left the country with his family.

‘Gov’t dragging its feet’

At a press conference in the Parliament lobby afterward, Chua expressed disappointment with the government's attitude.

NONE "Why is there no pro-active action? Why are they being passive?" he asked.

He alleged that the “unwillingness” to follow up is proof that the government is not interested in getting to the bottom of the matter.

Last November, Balasubramaniam had surfaced with more allegations, this time in a series of interviews which were posted on popular video-sharing website YouTube.

Balasubramaniam claimed he had been offered RM5 million by Nazim to retract the first statutory declaration. Najib has since dismissed the allegations as “frivolous”.

Following this, Balasubramaniam's lawyers had asked the MACC to investigate their client's claims.

In January, MACC head Abu Kassim Mohamed had said the agency is willing to meet Balasubramaniam to record his statements.