KUALA LUMPUR: The police will see if there is a need to set up a committee to oversee fresh investigations into the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaaribu, said Deputy Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Noor Rashid Ibrahim.
He said that the process was still in its early phases.
“We want to see the grounds of the new allegations and then decide how to move forward,” said Noor Rashid on Sunday (June 24) after officiating a meeting of police veterans here.
He said that while no past witnesses have been called in, they could be if the need arises and also said that these witnesses would include the team that handled the initial investigation.
On Deputy Supt Musa Safri – a former aide-de-camp of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak – Noor Rashid said that the police are aware of his location.
“I understand that he is still in the country,” he said, adding that Musa would be called in if need be.
On June 20, Altantuya’s father Dr Shaaribuu Setev lodged a report with the Dang Wangi district police headquarters.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun had previously said that investigations into the murder would be reopened.
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 the sentences were upheld by the Federal Court upon the prosecution’s appeal.
Sirul however fled to Australia where he was detained by Australian Immigration at a detention centre in Sydney after Interpol issued a red notice on him.
He has been at the detention centre since 2015, and is hoping to get asylum in Australia.
-ANN
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