Malaysiakini: Brazil buys Eurocopters at half of our price

Earlier this month, Mentari Services Sdn. Bhd., the company which was involved in the tender, issued a written letter to Najib seeking to explain that Defense Ministry's decision to award the deal to Eurocopter was "too costly". The company chairman, Capt (R) Datuk Zahar Hashim also revealed that his side was shock to learn that the ministry had ordered the Letter of Intent (LOI) to be issued to Eurocopter while the process of evaluation of all bidders was still on-going.