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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Najib's ex-bodyguards back on Death Row for Altantuya's murder but 'MOTIVE' & 'MASTERMINDS' still at large

Najib's ex-bodyguards back on Death Row for Altantuya's murder but 'MOTIVE' & 'MASTERMINDS' still at large
Two former police commandos were sentenced to death after the Federal Court today allowed the government's appeal over the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006.
Federal Court judge Suriyadi Halim Omar said the prosecution had proved its case to implicate Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azahar with the charge that carried the death penalty.
"As such, the Court of Appeal was wrong in reversing the findings of the trial court to free them," said Suriyadi, who is a member of the five-man bench to hear the final appeal.
On August 23, 2013, the Court of Appeal allowed the appeals brought by Azilah and Sirul and acquitted them.
Azilah was expressionless as the verdict was read. Sirul did not show up in court this morning.
Where is Sirul
Video The night Altantuya was killed
Sirul's lawyer. The police corporal had previously stated he was paid to kill Altantuya and has also expressed impatience at being imprisoned. His absence now sparks suspicion he was allowed to abscond and may have been 'paid off' by the masterminds behind the murder. Neither Azilah nor Sirul had prioor knowledge of Altantuya and as such 'no motive', their lawyers have argued. Both men were 'introduced' to her by PM Najib's aide-de-camp, who mysteriously escaped being called to the witness stand.
Prosecutor Tun Abdul Majib Tun Hamzah asked the court to issue a warrant of arrest for Sirul and it was granted.
Four years earlier, High Court judge Datuk Zaki Mohd Yassin found the two guilty and sentenced them to death.
Evidence in court revealed that the Mongolian translator was either murdered by C4 explosives or was killed first and the remains destroyed on October 18, 2006, in the outskirts of Shah Alam, near capital city Kuala Lumpur.
Former political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, a confidante of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, was charged with abetting Azilah and Sirul but was acquitted by the High Court in 2008 without defence called.
The government did not appeal.
Who pulled the trigger?
Despite today's conviction, the motive for the murder of Altantuya was never revealed.
Both cops were former bodyguards to PM Najib, who has been accused of involvement in the grisly C4 murder. Links to Najib through his confidant Abdul Razak Baginda, who played a key role in Malaysia's multi-billion ringgit purchase of Scorpenes and through testimony from Altantuya's father that she came to Malaysia to see him were not examined in the court trial. As such, even though Najib has denied ever knowing Altantuya, suspicion swirls she was his former mistress and was killed in connection to the shady Scorpenes acquisition, where 'fees' were said to have been paid to top figures in the Malaysian government. Najib, the Defence Minister at the time, had sanction the purchase.
In an immediate response Tun Majid, who conducted the case from the High Court, said he was glad the matter was over and the hard work paid off.
Lawyer Kamarul Hisham Kamaruddin, who represented Sirul, said he last contacted his client a week after the conclusion of the appeal hearing in Federal Court in June.
"We could not contact him to inform him about the delivery of the verdict as we do not have his latest contact number," he said.
Will Sultan commute death sentence to life imprisonment
The only option left now for the cops is to apply for a pardon to the Sultan of Selangor to commute their death sentence to imprisonment.
Also present at the hearing was Mongolian government representative Reynolds Augustine.
Najib confidant Razak Baginda was controversially acquitted and rushed away to Britain
Suriyadi said the Azilah's alibi evidence that he was not the crime scene was a non-starter and that the piece of evidence was bare denial.
He said Sirul's unsworn statement from the dock was totally discredited and as this left him with no defence at all.
Suriyadi said Azilah relied greatly on an entry in a Bukit Aman police station diary that he was not at Puncak Alam, the crime scene in Shah Alam.
He said the maker of the diary was not called to confirm the truth of the entry and unless proven, it remained hearsay.
"With only a notice of alibi and unproved document to fall back as opposed to the water-tight case of the prosecution, it was surprise that a prima facie case was established.” - TMI

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