She had appeared at the press conference, held at the office of Pertubuhan Minda dan Sosial Prihatin, and accompanied by the organisation’s president, Ramesh Rao, and deputy president Zakuanhafiz Ahmad Ansari.

She said she was apologising to the prime minister and his family on her husband’s behalf and said she wanted to seek help for her children’s education.

Things heated up after a reporter for international press asked why there were Special Branch officers outside and why it was necessary for Selvi to apologise to the Prime Minister in order to request financial aid for her children.

The journalist asked Selvi whether she was retracting her late husband’s statement that Najib had an affair with the late Altantuya Shaariibuu and was somehow involved in her death.

Selvi said no, and that she was only apologising to Najib’s wife Rosmah Mansor for accusing her of having killed her husband.

However, the journalist pointed out that it was stated in her press statement that she was apologising to the Prime Minister and his family on her husband’s behalf.

He asked whether she was being bribed to make the apology.

Selvi denied that she was bribed and shouted “I just want money for my children’s education” before storming off, accompanied by Ramesh Rao.

Zakuanhafiz took over and tried to explain what he knew of the situation. He said that Selvi had sought PMSP’s help and at the same time wanted to apologise to Rosmah for her accusation.

He added that Selvi was upset with several members from PKR for making false promises that they would take care of her and her family.

“This drama occurred because Selvi was pressured by the international journalist and therefore failed to answer his questions,” he said.

“The journalist should have allowed the poor woman to finish her statement before bombarding her with questions.”

He speculated that if PKR members had fulfilled their promises to help her, she would not have had to appear today.

Selvi appeared later to say that she and her family had been given RM20,000 a month for their expenses after they fled the country in the wake of the sensational 2008 statutory declarations by her husband, a private investigator, in which he had implicated Najib in a relationship with Altantuya.

PI Bala later made a second declaration withdrawing the first, after which he and his family secretly left the country. He died in March 2013 after returning from exile in India.