MONGOLIAN model turned interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu had informed her father Shaariibuu Setev that she needed to travel to Malaysia to meet a man named Razak, the Shah Alam High Court heard today.

Shaariibuu clarified that Altantuya did not tell him the full name of the man she was meeting in October 2006.

“I met my daughter and I asked her why she was travelling to Malaysia and who she was going to meet.

“She said she was meeting a man named Razak. But she didn’t tell me if it was Najib Razak or Razak Baginda. She further said that she wants to get help for her son’s treatment,” Shaariibuu said under examination by counsel Ramkarpal Singh.

Asked if if he had learnt what Razak looked like during his conversation with his daughter, he said he had not.

He said he later took the opportunity to look into her handbag when she was in the bathroom.

“She went to the toilet and suddenly her phone rang. I opened her bag and saw a picture of her with two men,” Shaariibuu said

Shaariibuu said he asked Altantuya who these two men were, and she replied that they were the men she was supposed to meet in Kuala Lumpur.

Shaariibuu is testifying in the hearing of the RM100 million suit he is pressing against the Malaysian government, over the murder of Altantuya. The suit seeking damages and dependency claims was filed in 2007. – January 25, 2019.