faced honorary consul of mongolia: altantuya’s father gave all the pictures, notebooks, films, computer files – to the double faced syed rahman
Despite the outcome of this expose in the near future being not very encouraging, take heart, cos even kids are well versed with the ultimate outcome of Najis.
After the murder of Altantuya, a charitable soul contacted Shaaribuu Setev, the father of the young woman : Datuk Syed, honorary consul of Mongolia in Malaysia. “I am ready to do everything to help you”, said the diplomat to Shaaribuu Setev. His dedication even pushed the amicable Datuk Syed to make revelations to the father. “The Malaysian governement is ready to spend one billion of tughrik (mongolian currency, equivalent to 500,000 euros) to cover up the case”NAZIM, DEEPAK, DINESH, SURESH, ASP MUNIANDY,AMBALABALAN SHOULD ALL BE CHARGED FOR CONSPIRACY TO WITHHOLD INFORMATION REGARDING A MURDER CASE,
Now that you say it. There’s a strong resemblance. Both are fat-asses.
Rosmah is like older sister to me, nothing more’
Deepak u don’t know BALA but u ask his help to follow ur staff ,remember.do u want me to highlight all this in the web.Deepak shut your mouth and go and lick ASP suresh
penis maybe u will get good idea .next time don t come and read script
Deepak u don’t know BALA but u ask his help to follow ur staff ,remember.do u want me to highlight all this in the web.Deepak shut your mouth and go and lick ASP suresh
penis maybe u will get good idea .next time don t come and read script
The mystery “carpet man” alleged to be closely linked to self-proclaimed First Lady of Malaysia Rosmah Mansor said today said she is like an “older sister” to him, nothing more.
Deepak Jaikishan, the carpet dealer mentioned numerous times by blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin, said Rosmah “is a good person, if you know her personally”.
WHAT IS HAPPENING? NO APPEAL FOR A MURDER CASE AND YET IN RAJA PETRA’S HABEAS CORPUS CASE, THE APPEAL IS MADE VERY QUICKLY. THE MALAYSIAN PUBLIC HAS THE RIGHT TO KNOW THE REASONS FOR THIS APPARENT DISCRIMINATION. MAYBE, RAZAK BAGINDA IS A CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, NAJIB TUN RAZAK, WHEREAS RAJA PETRA IS NAJIB’S STRONGEST CRITIC. IF NOT, WHAT ELSE? PLEASE, DEPUTY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR TUN MAJID TUN HAMZAH, CAN YOU EXPLAIN? —DIN MERICAN
| WWW.MALAYSIAKINI.COM NO APPEAL AGAINST ABDUL RAZAK’S ACQUITTAL |
| HAFIZ YATIM | NOVEMBER 14, 2008 |
THE CLOCK HAS RUN DOWN ON A POSSIBLE APPEAL AGAINST THE ACQUITTAL OF POLITICAL ANALYST ABDUL RAZAK BAGINDA, WHO HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH ABETTING IN THE MURDER OF MONGOLIAN NATIONAL ALTANTUYA SHAARIIBUU.  THE PROSECUTION HAD 14 DAYS TO FILE AN APPEAL AFTER SHAH ALAM HIGH COURT JUDGE MOHD ZAKI MD YASIN DELIVERED HIS RULING ON OCTOBER 31.  CHECKS WITH THE COURT REGISTRY AT 5PM TODAY SHOWED THAT NO APPEAL HAS BEEN FILED.DEPUTY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR TUN MAJID TUN HAMZAH(RIGHT) SAID THE COURT HAD MADE A FINDING OF FACT AND HE CONFIRMED THAT THE PROSECUTION WOULD NOT FILE AN APPEAL. “NO FURTHER COMMENTS AS THERE IS AN ON-GOING TRIAL,” HE SAID WHEN CONTACTED MOHD ZAKI IN HIS WRITTEN JUDGMENT HAD SAID: “ONCE THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF ABETMENT – BY INSTIGATION, BY CONSPIRACY AND BY AIDING – [...] ARE NOT PROVEN ON THE BASIS OF PRIMA FACIEEVIDENCE, ANY OTHER INFERENCES AND DOUBTS THAT MAY HAVE ARISEN MUST BE RESOLVED, AS IS TRITE, IN FAVOUR OF THE ACCUSED PERSON.  “IT IS NOT FOR THE COURT TO CALL FOR THE DEFENCE MERELY TO CLEAR OR CLARIFY SUCH DOUBTS [...] I FIND THERE IS NO PRIMA FACIECASE FOR HIM (ABDUL RAZAK, LEFT) TO ANSWER HIS CHARGE…”HOWEVER, THE JUDGE ORDERED SPECIAL ACTION SQUAD POLICE OFFICERS AZILAH HADRI, 32, AND SIRUL AZHAR UMAR, 38, TO ENTER THEIR DEFENCE. THEY ARE JOINTLY ACCUSED OF MURDERING ALTANTUYA, 28, AT A LOCATION BETWEEN LOT 12843 AND LOT 16735 IN MUKIM BUKIT RAJA, SELANGOR BETWEEN 10AM ON OCT 19, 2006 AND 1AM THE FOLLOWING DAY. THEY HAVE ELECTED TO TESTIFY UNDER OATH WHEN THE HEARING RESUMES ON NOV 10. THEIR OTHER OPTIONS WERE EITHER TO GIVE A STATEMENT FROM THE DOCK OR TO REMAIN SILENT. |
KARPAL SINGH WHO IS COUNSEL FOR THE FAMILY OF MURDERED MONGOLIAN TRANSLATOR ALTANTUYA SHAARIIBUU SAID THE MONGOLIAN GOVERNMENT HAD AGREED TO POST A SECURITY DEPOSIT BOND OF RM60,000 FOR THE FAMILY TO ENABLE THE COURT OF APPEAL TO CONTINUE WITH THE COMPENSATION HEARING.
“THEY (MONGOLIAN GOVERNMENT) HAVE AGREED TO MAKE THE PAYMENT BEFORE JUNE 30. THE FAMILY’S CASE SEEKING COMPENSATION WILL CONTINUE NOW,” KARPAL TOLD FMT YESTERDAY.
HE SAID, HOWEVER, THAT THE COURT PROCESS COULD TAKE TIME. THE CASE IS CURRENTLY WITH THE COURT OF APPEAL AND WILL CONTINUE TO THE FEDERAL COURT.
FOLLOWING THE COURT’S ORDER FOR A SECURITY BOND, KARPAL HAD APPEALED TO ALL PAKATAN RAKYAT MPS AND STATE ASSEMBLYMEN TO CHIP IN AND HELP THE FAMILY WITH FUNDS.
“BUT NOW THAT THE MONGOLIAN GOVERNMENT HAS AGREED TO ASSIST ALTANTUYA’S FATHER SHAARIIBUU SETEV POST THE BOND, THERE WILL BE NO NEED TO COLLECT DONATIONS FROM THE MPS AND STATE REPS,” KARPAL SAID.
ON JUNE 4, 2007, ALTANTUYA’S FATHER, SETEV, MOTHER ALTANTSETSEG SANJAA AND HER TWO SONS MUNGUNSHAGAI AND ALTANSHAGAI MUNKHTULGA HAD SUMMONED THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT, ABDUL RAZAK BAGINDA, AND THE TWO ACCUSED – CHIEF INSPECTOR AZILAH HADRI AND CORPORAL SIRUL AZHAR UMAR – TO SEEK RM100 MILLION IN COMPENSATION FOR HER DEATH.
THEY ALLEGED THAT AZILAH AND SIRUL, WHO WERE ATTACHED TO THE SPECIAL ACTIONUNIT , HAD SHOT ALTANTUYA AND DISPOSED OF HER CORPSE BY EXPLODING IT USING A C4 BOMB. BITS OF ALTANTUYA’S BODY WERE LATER FOUND IN THE FOREST AREA IN PUNCAK ALAM, SHAH ALAM, ON NOV 7, 2006.
THREE MONTHS TO PAY
FOLLOWING THE FAMILY’S CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION, ABDUL RAZAK AND THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS THE DEFENDANTS FILED AN APPLICATION ASKING THAT SETEV AND FAMILY PREPARE A COST GUARANTEE OF RM1 MILLION OR ANY AMOUNT DEEMED FIT BY THE COURT.
THE FAMILY APPEALED AND THE SHAH ALAM HIGH COURT ON MARCH 30, 2010, ORDERED THE SETEV FAMILY TO PAY A SECURITY BOND OF RM60,000 INSTEAD TO THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT AND ABDUL RAZAK, WHO IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN PRIME MINISTER NAJIB RAZAK’S POLITICAL ADVISER.
THE PLAINTIFF, SETEV, WAS REQUIRED TO DEPOSIT THE PAYMENT WITH THE COURT AS SECURITY TO ENABLE COURT PROCEEDINGS TO CONTINUE.
JUDICIAL COMMISSIONER ZALEHA YUSOF RULED IN CHAMBERS THAT SETEV HAD THREE MONTHS TO PAY RM30,000 EACH TO THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT AND ABDUL RAZAK.
SETEV HAD AT THAT POINT SAID HE WOULD SEEK THE ASSISTANCE OF MPS IN MONGOLIA AND MALAYSIA TO HELP WITH THE FINANCE BECAUSE THE RM60,000 WAS TOO MUCH FOR THE FAMILY.
KARPAL HAD SAID THAT HE WOULD NOT FURTHER BURDEN SETEV AND FAMILY WITH THE DEPOSIT BECAUSE SETEV ONLY EARNED US$200 (RM620) A MONTH AND NEEDED IT TO TAKE CARE OF THE FAMILY, INCLUDING ALTANTUYA’S TWO SONS.
THE SPECTRE OF MURDERED MONGOLIAN MODEL ALTANTUYA SHAARIIBUU TODAY FOLLOWED DATUK SERI NAJIB RAZAK ALL THE WAY FROM HOME TO HIS FIRST OFFICIAL TRIP TO EUROPE AS PRIME MINISTER IN WHAT CLEARLY IS AN ATTEMPT TO EMBARRASS HIM PUBLICLY.
ALTANTUYA, WHO SUFFERED A GRUESOME DEATH ON MALAYSIAN SOIL THREE YEARS AGO, WAS A FORMER MISTRESS TO POLITICAL ANALYST ABDUL RAZAK BAGINDA, WHO IS A CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF NAJIB.
IN AN EMAILED STATEMENT TO THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER SAID TO BE FROM ALTANTUYA’S FATHER, DR SHAARIIBUU SETEV EXPRESSED HIS REGRET THAT HE COULD NOT BE IN PARIS TODAY TO GREET NAJIB BECAUSE HE WAS SICK AND IN HOSPITAL.
“I HAD SO WISHED TO SPEAK TO MR NAJIB AND SEND HIM THIS MESSAGE AND TO SHAKE HIS HAND,” SHAARIIBUU WROTE.
“I HOPE PM MR. NAJIB RAZAK ENJOYS HIS TRIP TO FRANCE, WHERE A DEAL WITH A FRENCH COMPANY WHICH HIS CLOSE FRIEND ABDUL RAZAK BAGINDA HELP BROKER LED TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING MY DAUGHTER’S MURDER,” HE CLAIMED.
SHAARIIBUU DEMANDED NAJIB, WHO TOOK OVER AS PRIME MINISTER IN APRIL, TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS THEN 28-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER’S DEATH.
HE CLAIMS SHE HAD DIED WHILE WORKING AS A TRANSLATOR IN A SECRET DEAL TO HELP THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT BUY FRENCH SUBMARINES WORTH BILLIONS OF EUROS.
HE HIGHLIGHTED TWO REPORTS SAYING THAT NAJIB’S AIDE-DE-CAMP, MUSA SAFRI, HAD ORDERED TWO POLICEMEN TO “DEAL WITH ALTANTUYA” WHEN SHE HAD APPROACHED HER LOVER OVER HER SHARE OF COMMISSIONS.
THE SHAH ALAM HIGH COURT LAST YEAR FOUND THE TWO POLICEMEN GUILTY OF BLOWING UP ALTANTUYA’S BODY IN A SHAH ALAM JUNGLE THREE YEARS AGO AND SENT THEM TO THE GALLOWS, BUT CLEARED ABDUL RAZAK OF ABETTING IN THE MURDER.
THEIR APPEAL AGAINST THE DEATH SENTENCE IS PENDING IN THE COURT OF APPEAL.
SHAARIIBUU LAST MONTH DROPPED A SUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PUSH THEM TO APPEAL AGAINST ABDUL RAZAK’S ACQUITTAL.
HOWEVER, HE IS STILL SUING THE GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS ABDUL RAZAK AND THE TWO COPS FOR RM100 MILLION OVER ALTANTUYA’S DEATH.
HIS LAWYER, KARPAL SINGH, TOLD REPORTERS PREVIOUSLY THAT SHAARIIBUU HAS INDICATED THAT HE IS WILLING TO SETTLE THE MATTER OUT OF COURT.
HE IS WORRIED FOR THE FUTURE OF ALTANTUYA’S TWO YOUNG SONS WHO ARE CURRENTLY LIVING WITH HIM AND HIS EQUALLY ILL WIFE.
“WITH SO MANY CLOSELY LINKED TO NAJIB IN THIS MURDER, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE AND IRRESPONSIBLE FOR NAJIB TO NOW WASH HIS HANDS OFF THIS MATER (SIC) AND ACT AS IF NONE OF THIS TRAGEDY HAS BEFALLEN MY DAUGHTER AND MY FAMILY,” SHAARIIBUU WROTE.
“THE FRENCH COMPANY INVOLVED IN THE MALAYSIAN DEAL ALSO CANNOT ESCAPE WITH IMPUNITY,” HE ADDED, STRESSING THAT ALTANTUYA WOULD HAVE BEEN SPARED IF THE “DEAL HAD BEEN TRANSPARENT AND FAIR.” ALL THE WAY FROM HOME TO HIS FIRST OFFICIAL TRIP TO EUROPE AS PRIME MINISTER IN WHAT CLEARLY IS AN ATTEMPT TO EMBARRASS HIM PUBLICLY.
ALTANTUYA, WHO SUFFERED A GRUESOME DEATH ON MALAYSIAN SOIL THREE YEARS AGO, WAS A FORMER MISTRESS TO POLITICAL ANALYST ABDUL RAZAK BAGINDA, WHO IS A CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF NAJIB.
IN AN EMAILED STATEMENT TO THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER SAID TO BE FROM ALTANTUYA’S FATHER, DR SHAARIIBUU SETEV EXPRESSED HIS REGRET THAT HE COULD NOT BE IN PARIS TODAY TO GREET NAJIB BECAUSE HE WAS SICK AND IN HOSPITAL.
“I HAD SO WISHED TO SPEAK TO MR NAJIB AND SEND HIM THIS MESSAGE AND TO SHAKE HIS HAND,” SHAARIIBUU WROTE.
“I HOPE PM MR. NAJIB RAZAK ENJOYS HIS TRIP TO FRANCE, WHERE A DEAL WITH A FRENCH COMPANY WHICH HIS CLOSE FRIEND ABDUL RAZAK BAGINDA HELP BROKER LED TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING MY DAUGHTER’S MURDER,” HE CLAIMED.
SHAARIIBUU DEMANDED NAJIB, WHO TOOK OVER AS PRIME MINISTER IN APRIL, TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS THEN 28-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER’S DEATH.
HE CLAIMS SHE HAD DIED WHILE WORKING AS A TRANSLATOR IN A SECRET DEAL TO HELP THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT BUY FRENCH SUBMARINES WORTH BILLIONS OF EUROS.
HE HIGHLIGHTED TWO REPORTS SAYING THAT NAJIB’S AIDE-DE-CAMP, MUSA SAFRI, HAD ORDERED TWO POLICEMEN TO “DEAL WITH ALTANTUYA” WHEN SHE HAD APPROACHED HER LOVER OVER HER SHARE OF COMMISSIONS.
THE SHAH ALAM HIGH COURT LAST YEAR FOUND THE TWO POLICEMEN GUILTY OF BLOWING UP ALTANTUYA’S BODY IN A SHAH ALAM JUNGLE THREE YEARS AGO AND SENT THEM TO THE GALLOWS, BUT CLEARED ABDUL RAZAK OF ABETTING IN THE MURDER.
THEIR APPEAL AGAINST THE DEATH SENTENCE IS PENDING IN THE COURT OF APPEAL.
SHAARIIBUU LAST MONTH DROPPED A SUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PUSH THEM TO APPEAL AGAINST ABDUL RAZAK’S ACQUITTAL.
HOWEVER, HE IS STILL SUING THE GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS ABDUL RAZAK AND THE TWO COPS FOR RM100 MILLION OVER ALTANTUYA’S DEATH.
HIS LAWYER, KARPAL SINGH, TOLD REPORTERS PREVIOUSLY THAT SHAARIIBUU HAS INDICATED THAT HE IS WILLING TO SETTLE THE MATTER OUT OF COURT.
HE IS WORRIED FOR THE FUTURE OF ALTANTUYA’S TWO YOUNG SONS WHO ARE CURRENTLY LIVING WITH HIM AND HIS EQUALLY ILL WIFE.
“WITH SO MANY CLOSELY LINKED TO NAJIB IN THIS MURDER, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE AND IRRESPONSIBLE FOR NAJIB TO NOW WASH HIS HANDS OFF THIS MATER (SIC) AND ACT AS IF NONE OF THIS TRAGEDY HAS BEFALLEN MY DAUGHTER AND MY FAMILY,” SHAARIIBUU WROTE.
“THE FRENCH COMPANY INVOLVED IN THE MALAYSIAN DEAL ALSO CANNOT ESCAPE WITH IMPUNITY,” HE ADDED, STRESSING THAT ALTANTUYA WOULD HAVE BEEN SPARED IF THE “DEAL HAD BEEN TRANSPARENT AND FAIR.”
BEAUTIFUL MONGOLIAN MODEL ALTANTUYA SHAARIIBUU WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD TWICE AND THEN SHE WAS BLOWN TO PIECES WITH C4 EXPLOSIVE IN A GRUESOME MURDER INMALAYSIA ALLEGEDLY BY TOP LEVEL OFFICIALS AND POLITICAL ELITES.
MALAYSIA’S RULING PARTY IS ON THE ROPES AND THINGS ARE GETTING UGLY REAL FAST:AN INFLUENTIAL MALAYSIAN BLOGGER ALLEGES THAT DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER DATUK SERI NAJIB RAZAK’S WIFE WAS PRESENT WHEN A MONGOLIAN TRANSLATOR/MODEL WAS MURDERED IN 2006. CAN SOMEBODY SAY ‘COVER-UP’?I AM SURE WHEN SUSPENSIONS GET SERIOUS THEY WILL FIND A “FALL PERSON” USUALLY SOME LOCAL IDIOT AND HAVE THAT PERSON CONVICTED AND EXECUTED REAL FAST IF THIS IS A CRIME BY THE POLITICAL ELITES. AND PEOPLE WILL FORGET ABOUT IT REAL SOON, THATS THE WAY COVER UPS USUALLY WORK.
SOME SERIOUSLY TROUBLING QUESTIONS IN MALAYSIA
KIM QUEK, ASIA SENTINEL
AN UNBELIEVABLE SPECTACLE TOOK PLACE IN THE BIZARRE MURDER TRIAL OF MONGOLIAN BEAUTY ALTANTUYA SHAARIBUU ON JUNE 29. KARPAL SINGH, THE LAWYER FOR THE VICTIM’S FAMILY, ATTEMPTED TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT A “GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL” ALLEGEDLY SEEN IN A PHOTOGRAPH WITH THE VICTIM. AT THAT POINT, BOTH THE PROSECUTOR AND THE DEFENSE LAWYER SPRANG TO THEIR FEET IN UNISON TO BLOCK THE QUESTION.
THIS RESULTED IN A SHOUTING MATCH, WITH SINGH ON ONE SIDE, THE VICTIM’S COUSIN ON THE STAND, AND THE COMBINED FORCES OF THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE BLOCKING THE LINE OF QUESTIONING.
EARLIER, A SIMILAR DIVISION OF FORCES OCCURRED WHEN A MONGOLIAN WITNESS – A GIRLFRIEND OF THE VICTIM TOLD THE COURT THAT IMMIGRATION ENTRY COMPUTER RECORDS OF THE DECEASED AND HER TWO MONGOLIAN COMPANIONS, INCLUDING THE WITNESS, HAD BEEN MYSTERIOUSLY ERASED. WHEN SINGH ASKED THE COURT TO TAKE PROPER NOTE OF THIS HIGHLY IRREGULAR EVENT, BOTH THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE OBJECTED TO THE EVIDENCE AS IRRELEVANT, AND INSISTED THAT IT BE EXPUNGED.
NOW, ISN’T THAT A STRANGE PHENOMENON? A PROSECUTOR IS SUPPOSED TO SEEK JUSTICE FOR THE DECEASED VICTIM’S FAMILY AGAINST THE MURDERERS, SO HOW COME THE PROSECUTOR IS NOW GANGING UP WITH DEFENSE LAWYERS TO OPPOSE THE VICTIM’S FAMILY LAWYER? IS THIS A CASE OF PROSECUTOR VS. DEFENSE OR A CASE OF PROSECUTOR PLUS DEFENSE VS. VICTIM’S FAMILY? OBVIOUSLY, THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE SEEM TO HAVE PLENTY OF COMMON INTERESTS. WHAT ARE THOSE COMMON INTERESTS?
THE ANSWER MAY LIE IN THE IDENTITY OF THAT “GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL” THAT ALLEGEDLY APPEARED IN THE PHOTOGRAPH WITH ALTANTUYA THAT BOTH PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE TRIED SO HARD NOT TO ALLOW INTO COURT.
GRAPHICS COURTESY MICHAEL CHICK
THE PICTURE
ON DAY 10 OF THE TRIAL, ALTANTUYA’S COUSIN BURMAA OYUNCHIMEG TESTIFIED THAT AFTER ALTANTUYA RETURNED FROM FRANCE, SHE WENT TO HONG KONG TO MEET BURMAA, AND SHOWED HER A PHOTOGRAPH OF ALTANTUYA AND HER LOVER, ABDUL RAZAK BAGINDA, WHO IS ACCUSED OF CONSPIRING IN HER MURDER, AND “A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL” TAKING A MEAL TOGETHER. ANSWERING SINGH LATER, AFTER THE SHOUTING MATCH IN THE COURT HAD SUBSIDED, SHE SAID THIS “GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL” WAS DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER NAJIB TUN RAZAK.
SHE COULD DISTINCTLY REMEMBER THE NAME, SHE SAID, BECAUSE IT BEARS A SIMILARITY TO ALTANTUYA’S ACKNOWLEDGED LOVER’S NAME, AND SHE EVEN ASKED ALTANTUYA WHETHER THEY WERE BROTHERS. BURMAA FURTHER ADDED THAT THE PHOTO HAD ALSO BEEN SHOWN TO ALTANTUYA’S FATHER.
NOW, THE REVELATION OF NAJIB IN THE PHOTO WOULD NOT HAVE CAUSED SUCH A SENSATION IF NOT FOR THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER’S OFT-REPEATED DENIAL OF ANY KNOWLEDGE OF ALTANTUYA, INCLUDING A PUBLIC DENIAL DURING A RECENT BY-ELECTION, WHEN EVEN THE NAME OF ALLAH WAS INVOKED.
WHAT DOES NAJIB HAVE TO SAY NOW THAT HIS DENIAL IS DIRECTLY CONTRADICTED BY THE WITNESS BURMAA? HIS PRESS SECRETARY TENGKU SARIFUDDIN TENGKU AHMAD ISSUED A BRIEF STATEMENT ON JUNE 30 SAYING THAT THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER HAD DECLINED TO COMMENT FOR TWO REASONS. ONE, ANY COMMENT MIGHT BE SUB JUDICE, SINCE THE CASE IS IN COURT, AND, TWO, NAJIB HAD ALREADY REPEATEDLY DENIED AN ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE GIRL IN THE PAST, “AS SUCH, THE ISSUE OVER THE PICTURE DOES NOT ARISE,” THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
SUB JUDICE? THAT’S RIDICULOUS. HOW COULD A SIMPLE STATEMENT LIKE “I HAVE NEVER HAD MY PHOTO TAKEN WITH ALTANTUYA” BE SUB JUDICE? IN FACT, BEING THE NUMBER-TWO LEADER IN THE GOVERNMENT, NAJIB IS ABSOLUTELY DUTY-BOUND TO SAY OUTRIGHT WHETHER HE WAS EVER PHOTOGRAPHED WITH ALTANTUYA, IN VIEW OF THE SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS OF BURMAA’S ALLEGATION.
THE ISSUE OVER THE PICTURE DOES NOT ARISE? EQUALLY RIDICULOUS. IN FACT, THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. PRECISELY BECAUSE OF NAJIB’S PAST DENIALS, IT IS ALL THE MORE IMPERATIVE THAT NAJIB MUST STAND UP NOW TO CLARIFY.
GUILTY CONSCIENCE?
THERE IS ONLY ONE EXPLANATION FOR NAJIB’S PAST DENIALS AND HIS PRESENT SILENCE: A GUILTY CONSCIENCE. IF NAJIB’S CONDUCT WITH RESPECT TO THE CASE HAD BEEN ABOVE-BOARD, THERE WOULD BE NO REASON FOR HIM TO DENY AN ACQUAINTANCE WITH HIS FRIEND ABDUL RAZAK’S FRIEND ALTANTUYA. SIMILARLY, IF THE ALLEGATION OF THE PICTURE IS FALSE, IT IS INCONCEIVABLE AND TOTALLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE THAT NAJIB SHOULD HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO REFUTE BURMAA’S ALLEGATION.
IN FACT, NAJIB SEEMS SO WORRIED ABOUT THE PUBLICITY OF THE PICTURE THAT HIS SECRETARY CALLED EDITORS IN THE LOCAL PRESS AND REQUESTED THEM NOT TO BLOW UP THE ISSUE. THIS RESULTED IN THE EXPLOSIVE STORY BEING ABSENT FROM THE LOCAL HEADLINES THE NEXT DAY. (IN ONE CHINESE PAPER – GUANG MING – THE NAJIB STORY HIT THE FRONT PAGE IN THE EVENING EDITION, BUT DISAPPEARED COMPLETELY BY THE NEXT MORNING). AND OF COURSE, ANWAR IBRAHIM’S CRITICISM OF THE TRIAL AND HIS SPECIFIC CALL ON NAJIB TO CLARIFY THE ISSUE OF THE PICTURE DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE WAS GENERALLY BLACKED OUT.
HOWEVER, DESPITE SUCH NEW SUPPRESSION, IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE IS DONE. THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT THAT NAJIB IS DEEPLY TROUBLED AND HIS POLITICAL POSITION SERIOUSLY WEAKENED.
MANIPULATION
THAT THIS MURDER CASE HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO SERIOUS POLITICAL MANIPULATION HAS BEEN OBVIOUS FROM THE VERY START, WHEN THE POLICE COMMENCED THEIR HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE INVESTIGATION, RIGHT THROUGH TO THE PRESENT TRIAL WHEN THE CONDUCT OF LAWYERS FOR BOTH SIDES APPEAR INCREASINGLY DUBIOUS. INSTEAD OF THE PROSECUTOR SEEKING THE TRUTH AND THE DEFENSE LAWYER FIGHTING FOR THE ACCUSED, BOTH SEEM PREOCCUPIED WITH AN OVERRIDING MISSION – TO PREVENT THE WHOLE TRUTH FROM EMERGING. THEIR COMBINED EFFORTS TO COVER UP THE ISSUE OF THE IMMIGRATION RECORD AND THE IDENTITY OF NAJIB RAZAK IN THE PICTURE ARE JUST TWO EXAMPLES OF SUCH CONDUCT.
THE HIGHLY IRREGULAR NATURE OF THIS CASE WAS ALSO MARKED BY FREQUENT AND MYSTERIOUS CHANGES OF LEGAL PERSONNEL, RESULTING IN A COMPLETE CHANGEOVER OF THE DEFENSE TEAM, THE PROSECUTORS AND THE JUDGE EVEN BEFORE THE HEARINGS BEGAN. THESE WEIRD PHENOMENA WERE CROWNED BY THE SHOCK APPEARANCE OF A NEW TEAM OF PROSECUTORS WHO WERE APPOINTED ONLY HOURS BEFORE THE HEARING WAS SUPPOSED TO BEGIN, THUS NECESSITATING AN IMPROMPTU POSTPONEMENT OF THE TRIAL FOR TWO WEEKS. NONE OF THESE CHANGES OF LEGAL PERSONNEL HAS BEEN PROPERLY EXPLAINED, EXCEPT FOR THE RESIGNATION OF ABDUL RAZAK’S FIRST LAWYER; ZULKIFLI NOORDIN, QUIT, HE SAID, BECAUSE OF “SERIOUS INTERFERENCE BY THIRD PARTIES”.
UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, THE PUBLIC MUST BRACE ITSELF FOR MORE ABERRANT SCENARIOS FROM THIS COURT, WHILE NAJIB AND HIS SUPPORTERS MAY HAVE TO KEEP THEIR FINGERS CROSSED IN THE DAYS AHEAD WHEN MANY MORE WITNESSES HAVE YET TO WALK THROUGH WHAT MUST APPEAR TO NAJIB AS A MINEFIELD.
ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE, THIS UNSEEMLY TRIAL DOES NOT EXACTLY ADD CREDIT TO MALAYSIA’S SYSTEM, WHOSE ALREADY WRETCHED IMAGE HAS JUST BEEN FURTHER MAULED BY THE SHAMEFUL FINALE OF ANOTHER SHAM TRIAL – THAT OF ERIC CHIA OF PERWAJA STEEL FAME. AFTER SEVEN LONG YEARS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND THREE YEARS OF COURT HEARINGS, THAT CASE WAS THROWN OUT DUE TO LACK OF PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE. WITH THAT, THE LONG-DRAWN OUT PERWAJA STEEL SAGA ENDED WITHOUT FINDING ANY CULPRIT FOR THE MOUNTAIN OF LOSSES (MORE THAN RM 10 BILLION) SUFFERED BY TAXPAYERS.
THERE HAS BEEN A SPATE OF CRIMINAL CASES BEING DISMISSED OF LATE DUE TO INADEQUATE INVESTIGATIONS AND POOR PROSECUTION, INDICATING THAT THE DOWNWARD SLIDE OF OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, WHICH BEGAN IN THE MAHATHIR ERA, HAS GOTTEN WORSE UNDER ABDULLAH BADAWI’S LEADERSHIP. WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN A SHAMBLES, THE RULE OF LAW IS IN JEOPARDY. AND THAT IS AN IMPORTANT BENCHMARK TO JUDGE THE EFFICACY OF ABDULLAH’S ADMINISTRATION VIS-À-VIS HIS REFORM AGENDA.
KIM QUEK IS A MALAYSIA-BASED COMMENTATOR.
C4 Murder: Malaysian Police will be calling up Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin to investigate allegations in his recent statutory declaration on purported facts related to the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said the three individuals named in the document filed on June 18 would also be called up.
In an explosive statutory declaration to a Malaysian court, one of Malaysia’s most prominent web journalists has alleged that the wife of Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak as well as a Malaysian Army officer and the officer’s wife were directly involved in the murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu on October 19, 2006, and that people at the very top of the Malaysian government are aware of the fact. Raja Petra Kamaruddin states:
“Altantuya’s body is alleged to have been blown up with C4 explosives at a secondary forest in Puncak Alam, Shah Alam. The murder trial is currently ongoing at the Shah Alam High Court.“My informer states that Aziz was the person who placed the C4 on various parts of Altantuya’s body witnessed by Rosmah and Norhayati,” Raja Petra claimed in the document.“I make this statutory declaration because I have been reliably informed about the involvement of these three people who have thus far not been implicated in the murder nor called as witnesses by the prosecution in the ongoing trial at the Shah Alam High Court.“I also make this statutory declaration because I am aware that it is a crime not to reveal evidence that may help the police in its investigation of the crime,” read the document, which was first posted on thebigdogdotcomblog run by another blogger.“
He further alleged that he has also been ‘reliably informed’ that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi knows of Najib’s wife alleged involvement.
Najib and Rosmah have repeatedly denied they are linked to the killing of Altantuya, describing the widely-known allegations was nothing more than ‘slander and concocted stories’.
The declaration, by Raja Petra Kamaruddin, a well-connected journalist who edits the web publicationMalaysia Today and is on trial for sedition charges stemming from a commentary on the case. There is no independent confirmation of Raja Petra’s allegations, and the declaration was ignored by Malaysia’s government-linked mainstream media and one Kuala Lumpur-based lawyer with connections to top United Malays National Organisation figures expressed doubt about it.
In the declaration, Raja Petra claimed that the trio – one of them a prominent woman – were present at the scene during the murder of the Mongolian translator in October 2006.
Copies of the two-paged declaration together with the identity of the trio have been posted on various blog sites.
In the document, Raja Petra said he was “reliably informed” of these allegations. An aide to Najib also said they were aware of this latest claim made by Raja Petra. The aide however refused to comment if any action could be taken against Raja Petra.
Musa said the matter could be sub judice as the Altantuya murder case was still being heard.
He also said Raja Petra must be “brave enough to face the consequences if he is bold enough” to make the allegations.
Meanwhile, the Attorney-General’s Chambers has lodged a police report against Raja Petra over the statutory declaration.
Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said the allegations were “highly defamatory” and if found untrue, those making the allegations would have to face the consequences.
“We want to investigate because we want the truth. As far as I am concerned, we have to look at it seriously.”
“If it’s true, we will act accordingly. If not, the writer will be investigated,” he said, adding that the report was lodged in Putrajaya on Saturday.
Raja Petra said he expected to be called up.
He said he was bold enough to face the consequences. This is not the first time he is alleging that Najib was involved in Altantuya’s murder, but he has failed to produce any solid proofs besides empty talks so far.
The story adds considerable chaos to the country’s political mix. The Barisan Nasional, the national ruling coalition, is reeling from the loss of its two-thirds majority in March elections. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, taking the brunt of criticism over the loss, has already promised to step down at some future date to cede the premiership to Najib. District elections are due in July in the United Malays National Organisation and there are suspicions that the verdict in the Altantuya murder trial is being delayed until the elections are completed.
Raja Petra wrote that Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, and Acting Colonel Aziz Buyong and his wife, Norhayati, Rosmah’s aide-de-camp, were present at the scene of the murder and that Aziz Buyong was the individual who placed C4 plastic explosive on Altantuya’s body and blew it up. Both Najib and his wife have repeatedly denied any involvement in the case although Kuala Lumpur has been buzzing for months with rumors of their complicity.
Shaariibuu was executed by two shots to the head and her body was blown up with military explosives in a patch of jungle near the suburban city of Shah Alam. One of Najib’s closest friends, Abdul Razak Baginda, once the influential head of a political think-tank, and two of Najib’s bodyguards, Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar of the elite Unit Tindak Khas or Special Police Action Unit, are the subjects of a marathon murder trial that got underway more than a year ago.
Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has ordered the police to conduct a thorough probe into the murder of a beautiful Mongolian freelance model.
The Prime Minister said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan informed him about the murder of 28-year-old Altantuya Shaariibuu.
“I told the IGP he had to investigate the case thoroughly and properly.
“Nobody is above the law. That should be remembered,” he said when asked to comment on the high-profile murder that took place about two weeks ago.
The police have detained a 46-year-old prominent political analyst who heads a local think-tank and remanded him for five days from yesterday to facilitate investigation.
On the involvement of police personnel in the murder, Abdullah, who is also Internal Security Minister, said action must be taken against anybody found guilty under the law.
Three police personnel — a chief inspector, a lance corporal and a constable — have also been remanded to assist investigation into the gruesome killing of Altantuya, who was shot before her body was blown up to bits in a secondary jungle in Puncak Alam, Shah Alam.
The woman arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 9 with her sister and a cousin in search of the political analyst whom she claimed fathered her 16-month-old son.
Altantuya’s case came to light after her sister lodged a police report following her disappearance on Oct 21. Police identified the political analyst, who is said to have befriended the deceased a few years ago, as a suspect.
Earlier, Abdullah launched the Royal Professor Ungku Aziz Chair and the Centre for Poverty and Development Studies at Universiti Malaya.
Neither Najib nor his chief of staff, Musa Safri, has been questioned nor summoned to testify despite the fact that Baginda, in a sworn statement in November 2006, said he had contacted Musa for help in dealing with Altantuya, his jilted lover who was demanding money. That statement raised suspicions that all sides in the court – prosecution, defense and judiciary – are struggling to keep the case under wraps. The trial has been subject to numerous delays for reasons that are unclear.
Raja Petra himself is due to go on trial in October on sedition charges that were filed against him for writing an article titled “Let’s Send Altantuya’s Murderers to Hell.” In that piece, he accused Najib, his wife and others of complicity in the murder. He amplified the statement considerably in his statutory declaration, made last Wednesday, in which he also said that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had seen a full report by military intelligence on the involvement of the deputy premier’s family. Badawi gave the intelligence report to his son-in-law, Khairy Jamaluddin, for safekeeping, according to Raja Petra’s statement.
Raja Petra, a member of the Selangor royal family, also wrote that one of the country’s sultans had been given a full report on the matter. He didn’t identify the sultan, but if his statements are true it means that at least one member of royalty may be able to back up his declaration, which was not made under oath.
From the time Altantuya’s body was discovered, the case has raised dark questions about the possible involvement of top government figures. Others also believe that the 28-year-old mother of two may have been involved in a much bigger controversy than a jilted relationship. She made several trips to Kuala Lumpur to attempt to confront Baginda, at one point standing in front of his house and screaming “Razak, bastard, come out!” The last time she was seen alive was again in front of his house, when she was bundled into a car and taken away.
She had accompanied Baginda to France when he was involved in negotiating the purchase of two Scorpene submarines and a used Agosta submarine produced by the French government through a French-Spanish joint venture, Armaris, for the Malaysian defense ministry, which was headed by Najib as minister. The submarines were bought through a Kuala Lumpur-based company, Perimekar Sdn Bhd, which at the time was owned by yet another company, Ombak Laut, which was wholly owned by Abdul Razak Baginda.
The €1 billion (RM4.5 billion) contract to buy the submarines was non-competitive and netted Perimekar €114 million. Although Najib has sworn an oath to Allah that he had never met the woman, he was in France at the same time as Najib, one of his best friends, was there, dealing with matters over the submarine. A cousin of Altantuya’s testified at the trial that she had seen a picture of Najib together with the dead woman, but she was quickly hushed up by both defense and prosecution lawyers about the matter and the picture has not been produced.
Altantuya admitted in a letter discovered after her death that she had been blackmailing Abdul Razak, presumably to keep his family from finding out about their relationship. But in his statement to the police, Baginda said he had already informed his family of the relationship; he said she was pressuring him for US$500,000. Her father, Setev Shaariibuu, a psychology professor in Ulan Bataar, has said she was killed because she “knew too much,” although he has never elaborated on that statement.
Given the close relationship between the two men, and that Najib was reported as presenting jackets made available by Perimekar to the submarine crews training in France, and that Altantuya was traveling with Baginda, it is difficult to understand why the court has not pursued the issue of whether they met.
It is also difficult to understand, given published reports, plus the fact that the accused Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar Umar were members of Najib’s own bodyguard unit, that neither Najib nor Musa has been questioned about how the bodyguards came to be accused of Altantuya’s murder.
There have been many other discrepancies as well. Prosecutorial setbacks over the course of the trial have endangered the case. Sirul’s purported confession has been thrown out. The prosecution has attempted to impeach one of the prosecution’s star witnesses, Rohaniza Roslan, a 28-year-old policewoman and Azilah’s girlfriend. Rohaniza said she had seen the victim bundled into a red Proton car and taken away. Later, in court, she said she had been “tortured and coaxed” by police interrogators into signing that statement; she then offered the court a version of events that differed considerably from her initial account.
“The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor cannot remain silent on the latest bombshell,” wrote Lim Kit Siang, leader of the opposition Democratic Action Party. “The credibility and legitimacy of the Abdullah premiership and government will suffer a mortal blow if Abdullah, Najib and Rosmah remain silent on Raja Petra’s bombshell allegations.”
Raja Petra Kamarudin has made a serious statutory declaration on June 18 alleging that Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib’s wife, was at the murder scene of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006. Whether the allegation is truth or not is not known… in fact only very few people would know at the moment. RPK has shown his courage over the years, some say he is abusing his influence to bully the politicians.
Altantuya was last seen on Oct 19, 2006 as she was being bundled into a car outside Abdul Razak’s home.
ANWAR TO NAJIB: “Nothing personal!”
(Courtesy of MalaysiakiniTV 29 June 2007)
Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has been asked to explain the claim made in a court testimonial today that he had been photographed with murdered Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu. PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim said it was all the more compelling for the deputy premier to explain since he had previously denied having met her.
THE MONGOLIAN PM WROTE TO THE MALAYSIAN PM BUT NEVER GOT A RESPONSE…
Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa(Mongolian language: Шаарийбуугийн Алтантуяа; sometimes alsoAltantuya Shaariibuu; 1978 – 2006), a Mongolian national, was a murder victim who was either murdered byC-4explosives or was somehow killed first and her remains destroyed with C-4 in October 2006 in a deserted area in Shah Alam, Malaysia near Kuala Lumpur.
Altantuyaa was born in 1978. Her parents raised her and her sister while they worked in Russia where Altantuyaa started first grade elementary school. She was reportedly fluent in Mongolian, Russian, Chinese and English.
Altantuyaa moved back to Mongolia in 1990 and a few years later, married a Mongolian techno singer, Maadai. They had a child in 1996 but the marriage ended in divorce and the child went to live with Altantuyaa’s parents.
Despite training as a teacher, Altantuyaa briefly moved to France where she attended modeling school before returning to Mongolia. She only modeled part-time, for a brief time also opening a tour business in Mongolia.
Altantuyaa remarried and had another child in 2003 but the second marriage also ended in divorce (this is questionable). The second child also lives with Altantuyaa’s parents. Her mother said she never been a model.
She moved to Hong Kong in 2005, it was around this time she met Abdul Razak Baginda, a defense analyst from the Malaysian Strategic Research Centre think-tank, reportedly beginning a relationship with him. Initial reports of Altantuya having a child with Abdul Razak have been proven to be untrue.
Some sources allege that Altantuya came to Kuala Lumpur with a cousin in early October 2006 intending to confront Abdul Razak. When she went missing on Oct 19, her cousin lodged a police report and sought help from the Mongolian embassy in Bangkok.
Malaysian police found fragments of bone, later verified as hers, in forested land near the Subang Dam in Puncak Alam, Shah Alam. Police investigation of her remains revealed that she was shot twice before C-4explosives were used on her remains, although there has been later suggestion that the C-4 explosives may have killed her. When her remains were found their identity could only be confirmed with DNA testing. The provenance of the C-4 remains unclear.
Abdul Razak and three members of the police force were arrested during the murder investigation. The two murder suspects have been named as Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri, 30 and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, 35. They had been members of the elite Unit Tindakan Khas (the Malaysian Police Special Action Force or counter-terrorism unit) and were both assigned to the office of the Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, who was also the Defence Minister at the time of the murder. Abdul Razak has been charged with abetment in the murder.
Altantuya’s brutal murder received wide, detailed coverage in Malaysia, Mongolia and other Asian countries.
The trial was originally going to be held in March 2007, but was postponed until the 4th of June 2007. Due to controversial and last-minute changes in the prosecution and defence teams, and the presiding judge, the trial was again postponed until 18 June 2007. The pre-trial preparations have seen both the prosecution and defence teams level accusations of evidential impropriety at one another.
During the trial there was an incident between Baginda’s wife and the victim’s father.
In a statutory declaration in his sedition trial in October 2008, Raja Petra accused Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor (the wife of Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak) of being one of three individuals who were present at the crime scene when Altantuya Shaariibuu was murdered on Oct 19, 2006. He wrote that wrote that Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, and Acting Colonel Aziz Buyong and his wife, Norhayati, Rosmah’s aide-de-camp, were present at the scene of the murder and that Aziz Buyong was the individual who placed C4 plastic explosive on Altantuya’s body and blew it up.
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