Kit Siang advises ‘interested parties’ to meet over Altantuya case

Updated 6 years ago · Published on 18 Dec 2019 10:52AM · 2 Comments

Police conclude the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu took place sometime between the night of October 19 and the early hours of the following day in 2006. – EPA pic, December 18, 2019.

THE lawyers of various parties with an interest in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder saga should convene to discuss how to best pursue the case, DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang said.

The Iskandar Puteri MP was responding to former prime minister Najib Razak’s lawyer, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah’s statement that his client wanted the case to be reinvestigated.

“If Najib wants the case to be reinvestigated, a meeting of the lawyers of the interested parties representing Najib, Altantuya, PI Bala, businessman Deepak, the AG and others can be convened to consider how best this reinvestigation could be done,” he said in a statement.

The murder of Altantuya is once again under media spotlight after her convicted killer, former police commando Azilah Hadri made an admission in an explosive statutory declaration accusing Najib of masterminding the Mongolian model’s murder in 2006.

Najib was then the deputy prime minister and defence minister.

The murder took place sometime between the night of October 19 and the early hours of the following day in 2006.

Azilah and his colleague Sirul Azhar Umar were charged and were found guilty of the murder. Both were sentenced to death by hanging.

Najib’s close associate Abdul Razak Baginda, who was charged with abetting the crime, was acquitted.

Sirul is currently detained at an immigration centre in Australia after fleeing the country in 2015.

Azilah is on death row in Kajang prison.

Former lawyer for Azilah, Hazman Ahmad yesterday recently questioned the timing of his old client’s  statutory declaration.

Now represented by J. Kuldeep Kumar, Azilah is seeking a retrial.

Azilah’s applications to set aside the 2015 Federal Court ruling, which overturned his acquittal, and for a retrial, were filed last week.

The Federal Court fixed April 20 to hear Azilah’s review application.

Najib has dismissed Azilah’s fresh allegations as a political conspiracy. 

Yesterday he had urged for the case to be reopened so that his name would be cleared. He had also filed an application to intervene in Azilah’s court applications.

Najib has also been accused of involvement in the murder in a civil suit filed by businessman Deepak Jaikishan and private investigator Balasubramaniam’s wife. – December 18, 2019.
 

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  • Like all human beings, you come naked and you go naked. Only your name, acts and integrity can never be totally erased. Let's watch what these actors will do in their next act. 2020 will be full house.

    Posted 6 years ago by Concerned Citizen · Reply

  • What needs to be done is done is that the whole case should be revisited. 2 things come to mind (a) The case on its merits should be reexamined and (b) those involved in this case must be looked at carefully. On he merits of the case, the courts have always an inherent power to reexamine the facts in the event of grave injustice ( like in this case the death penalty involved). In so doing it will examine the facts, the investigation, the malicious prosecution if any, the judgment of guilt and interference ( if any) by the executive. If found that mala fides exist then prosecutors must move against
    (a) the guilty persons concerned
    (b) the police who framed the case
    (c) the prosecutors who were complicit in this case
    (d) the Judges who participated in this shenanigans
    (e) the devil behind it all-executive members who were involved-Minister of Defence, Home Ministry, Deputy Prime Minister, Prime Minister and all those who may have had a part to play in this murder.

    This is such a shameful act and has marred our history books-corruption, murder and cover up. So let us do the right thing.The murders cannot absolve them selves by said that they followed a directive from Razak. An illegal order should never be carried out, but the DPM's role must be examined.

    Posted 6 years ago by Nyaz Yussoff · Reply