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Friday, October 19, 2012

Six years on, Altantuya's ghost still lingers


It is six years today since bodyguards for now-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak dragged the Mongolian translator and party girl Altantuya Shaariibuu out of a car in a patch of jungle near Shah Alam.

As she begged for her life and apparently that of her unborn child, they knocked her unconscious, then shot her twice in the head.

That was Oct 19, 2006. According to court testimony, Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, members of the elite Unit Tindakan Khas, both assigned to Najib's office, then wrapped Altantuya's body in C4 plastic explosives and blew her up, possibly to mangle her remains so badly that the fetus would be destroyed.

Sirul Azhar was interrogated by police shortly after the murder was discovered. He was informed that anything he said could be held against him, in accordance with the law.

In his cautioned statement, as his confession was called in Malaysia, he told authorities he and Azilah had been offered RM100,000 to kill the woman and her two companions, who were causing highly public embarrassment for Abdul Razak Baginda, Najib's best friend.

The 28-year-old Mongolian woman, in a letter found after her death, wrote that she was sorry she had been blackmailing Razak Baginda.

If French police records are to be believed, Razak Baginda was allegedly central to a massive bribery case in which a total of nearly 150 million euros (RM598 million) in payments were steered to two Razak Baginda companies, Perimekar Sdn Bhd and Terasasi Hong Kong Ltd.

By John Berthelsen, Asia Sentinel

9 comments:

  1. Who offered the RM1000,000 to kill Altantuya, is it Razak or Rosmah?

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    1. why should Rosmah offered such a big amount of money to kill Altantuya??

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  2. SUARAM DAN PEMIMPIN PEMBANGKANG KANTOI MENIPU - TIDAK ADA PERBICARAAN SCOPENE DI PERANCIS.

    A prominent French government prosecutor has denied reports circulating among some Malaysian online news portals of an ongoing trial in France, on allegations of corruption by a French company over the purchase of two French-made Scorpene submarines by Malaysia in 2002.



    Yves Charpenel said the media in Malaysia should be able to distinguish between rumours and facts, and between investigations and a trial.

 “I am aware about all the fuss kicked up by certain media (organisations) in Malaysia over this matter but what I can say is that this is nothing more than a trial by the media,” he told Bernama here today.




    SUARAM DAN PEMIMPIN PEMBANGKANG KANTOI MENIPU - TIDAK ADA PERBICARAAN SCOPENE DI PERANCIS.

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  3. SUARAM DAN PEMIMPIN PEMBANGKANG KANTOI MENIPU - TIDAK ADA PERBICARAAN SCOPENE DI PERANCIS.

    Charpenel, who was a former head of prosecution in France and now a state prosecutor and an executive member of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (IAACA), was here to attend the four-day IAACA conference and general meeting which ended yesterday.



    Following a complaint filed in 2009 by Suaram, a Malaysian human rights non-governmental organisation (NGO), that a French company had allegedly paid bribes to a Malaysian firm for the submarine deal, he revealed that two independent “investigating judges” started their investigations earlier this year.




    SUARAM DAN PEMIMPIN PEMBANGKANG KANTOI MENIPU - TIDAK ADA PERBICARAAN SCOPENE DI PERANCIS.

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  4. SUARAM DAN PEMIMPIN PEMBANGKANG KANTOI MENIPU - TIDAK ADA PERBICARAAN SCOPENE DI PERANCIS.

    Charpenel said that in France, as in other countries practising the rule of law, all investigations were done in absolute secret.

 He said, it was anybody’s right to file a complaint and due to the secret nature of the investigations, some resorted to complaining to the media.



    SUARAM DAN PEMIMPIN PEMBANGKANG KANTOI MENIPU - TIDAK ADA PERBICARAAN SCOPENE DI PERANCIS.

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  5. SUARAM DAN PEMIMPIN PEMBANGKANG KANTOI MENIPU - TIDAK ADA PERBICARAAN SCOPENE DI PERANCIS.

    “A French investigating judge cannot take his luggage, take a plane and go to Malaysia and ask someone to answer his questions. It is impossible, it is against the French law and it is also against international law,” stressed Charpenel.

 In April this year, local opposition politicians here had even called for Malaysian officials to testify in Paris or risk being ostracised in the European Union.

 “A trial is a trial with all the rules. Investigation is another thing,” said Charpenel of the misinformation generated by certain news portals over allegations that a trial was already underway.



    SUARAM DAN PEMIMPIN PEMBANGKANG KANTOI MENIPU - TIDAK ADA PERBICARAAN SCOPENE DI PERANCIS.

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    1. Kalau macam begitu, kes scopene semua hanya rekaan pembangkang

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  6. Dekat2 PRU13 semua mahu diungkit, belum tentu lagi betul atau tidak semua tu

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  7. isu ini balik2 diungkit, kebenaraan belum tentu lagi.

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