I never met Altantuya! Najib accuses her cousin of lying

Former premier Najib Abdul Razak has reiterated that he never met slain Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu.

“That is slander. Lies. I never met her,” he told reporters when met on the campaign trail in Cameron Highlands this afternoon.

Najib also pointed out that he swore in a mosque about this in the past.

The former premier was commenting on Altantuya's cousin Burmaa Oyunchimeg's testimony in the Shah Alam High Court this morning.

She had reaffirmed that the deceased showed her photographs of her trip to Paris, in which Altantuya was with two men – Abdul Razak Baginda and a “deputy prime minister” named Razak.

"I asked her who they were, and she (Altantuya) said one was the deputy prime minister and the other was Razak (Baginda) who worked with him and did business together.

"I asked her if they were brothers because of the same name. She said no but they were best friends, business partners and worked together," she testified.

Burmaa was a witness in an RM100 million civil suit filed by Altantuya's family over her death.

Altantuya's gruesome murder in 2006 has haunted Najib for the past 13 years despite him repeatedly denying any involvement and being cleared by the authorities.

In January 2015, the Federal Court overturned an earlier Court of Appeal decision and sentenced former police special operations force personnel Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar Umar to death for the murder.

However, Sirul had fled to Australia when the Court of Appeal acquitted the pair. He is now being held at an immigration detention centre in Sydney since Australian law forbids deporting those who face the death sentence in their home countries.

Razak Baginda, who was accused of abetting the two former police officers in her murder, was acquitted. - Mkini