The Kuala Lumpur High Court will hear a judicial review application by Setev Shaariibuu in June over former police officer Azilah Hadri’s statutory declaration (SD) claiming he was “ordered to kill” in the murder of Setev’s daughter, Altantuya.
Setev’s lawyer, Sangeet Kaur Deo, told Malaysiakini today that the application will be heard on June 23.
Checks on the judiciary’s online system showed that the case will be heard before judge Aliza Sulaiman at 10am.
Aliza, on Oct 16 last year, granted Setev leave to pursue his judicial review following no objection from the respondents.
Setev filed the application on Aug 25 last year, naming the inspector-general of police, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) director, the police, the attorney-general and the government as respondents.
The Mongolian national is seeking a court order to compel the authorities to investigate Azilah’s SD dated Oct 17, 2019, and additional affidavit dated Sept 24, 2024, which were relied upon in Azilah’s (above) application to the Federal Court to review his death sentence.
Both documents, among others, contained Azilah’s statement that the former Special Action Unit commando received orders from “higher authorities” to carry out a “covert operation” to “kill and dispose of the deceased”.
Setev wants complete probe into SD
Setev is also seeking the court to declare that the respondents had acted unlawfully when they failed to inform him of the CID investigation in 2019 involving Azilah’s documents.
He further seeks a mandamus order to compel the authorities to complete investigations into the documents within one month of any court order, if the probe is still active.
Altantuya was murdered in October 2006, and her remains were blown up with military-grade explosives.
The Shah Alam High Court had convicted Azilah, together with another former commando, Sirul Azhar Umar, in 2009 for murdering the Mongolian model.
Their convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal in 2013.
However, the Federal Court reinstated their convictions and death sentence in 2015. By then, however, Sirul had fled to Australia, escaping the final judgment.
On Dec 5, 2019, Azilah filed an application to review the Federal Court’s verdict, which was dismissed on Dec 8 the next year.
However, the Federal Court commuted the former commando’s death sentence to 40 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the rotan in Oct 10, 2024, after reviewing his application filed under the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023. - Mkini
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