Puzzled ex-Najib aide was never asked to testify
Published on: Thursday, June 21, 2018
Kuala Lumpur: Mongolian national Dr Shaariibuu Setev lodged a police report here Wednesday seeking a fresh probe into the murder of his daughter Altantuya Shaariibuu who was killed in Malaysia 12 years ago.He made the report at the Dang Wangi District Police headquarters, arriving there at 11.35am with Ramkarpal Singh, the family lawyer.Ramkarpal Singh said the report was made to request the police to reopen the case of the murder of Altantuya, a model.
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"It is an ordinary police report. If there are new leads in the case, the police will look at them in their investigation. If others are found to have been involved in the murder, they will also be prosecuted," he said to reporters at the police headquarters.Altantuya is believed to have been killed and her body blown up with explosives at a secondary jungle in Mukim Bukit Raja, Klang, between 10pm on Oct 19, 2006, and 1am on Oct 20, 2006.In 2009, former police Special Action Unit members Sirul Azhar Umar and Azilah Hadri were found guilty of Altantuya's murder. The Court of Appeal overturned their sentences in 2013 but, upon the prosecution's appeal, they were upheld by the Federal Court.However, Sirul fled to Australia where he was detained by the Australian Immigration at its detention centre in Sydney after Interpol issued a red notice on him. He has been at the detention centre since 2015.
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He is hoping to get asylum in Australia.Shaaribuu said on Tuesday that he wanted to know who ordered the murder and the motive for the killing.
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Ramkarpal Singh said the police should have called DSP Musa Safri, a former aide-de-camp (ADC) of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, as a witness during the Altantuya murder trial.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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