NAJIB MADE A ‘SLIT THE THROAT’ GESTURE – WAS AZILAH OVERLY DRAMATIC IN HIS SD? NAJIB & DAUGHTER CONDEMN FORMER BODYGUARD’S SHOCK REVELATION

FORMER prime minister Najib Razak today denies fresh allegations that he was involved in the killing of Altantuya Shaariibuu, as alleged by former police Special Action Force (UTK) operative Azilah Hadri,  Malaysiakini reports.

Najib had questioned the timing of Azilah allegations, saying that this could be a plot by the Pakatan Harapan administration to divert public attention from its shortcomings.

“This is a complete fabrication by a desperate person seeking to escape the gallows.

“Why did this information not come out earlier, and only now, more than a decade after her death and only after 19 months Harapan has been in power?” he was quoted in the report.

Azilah in a statutory declaration had claimed that Najib had met him and ordered Altantuya’s killing.

Najib said he believed a deal was struck between PH and Azilah, with the latter’s death sentence being commuted or delayed in return.

“This is an attempt to distract attention and to hit out at me.

“I also maintain that I never met Altantuya despite Azilah’s claims.”

As for the SD, Najib said that anyone can do an SD, especially if the person is already on death row.

“If you were to believe SDs then you should also believe the recent SD made against the 8th (incoming) PM,” he said in reference to the sexual misconduct allegations against PKR president Anwar Ibrahim.

Najib also welcomed fresh police investigation into the claims, saying that it was reported that police sources had said there was no evidence linking him to any high-profile murders.

Azilah, who is on death row in Kajang Prison, is seeking a review of the Federal Court’s decision and a re-trial.

He is claiming that Najib and the latter’s close associate Abdul Razak Baginda had instructed him to kill Altantuya.

Azilah alleged that both of them had described the Mongolian national as a foreign spy, who was a threat to national security.

Recalling an alleged meeting with Najib in Pekan in 2006, Azilah said Najib, who was deputy prime minister at the time,  had ordered him to “arrest and destroy” Altantuya.

“I asked the DPM (deputy prime minister) what he meant by arrest and destroy the foreign spy, he responded: ‘Shoot to kill’, and indicating it with a ‘slit the throat’ gesture.

“When asked the purpose of destroying the foreign spy with explosives, the DPM replied: ‘Dispose the foreign spy’s body with an explosive device to remove the traces and the explosives can be obtained from the UTK store (armoury)’,” he alleged.

Azilah also claimed that he saw Najib and Razak Baginda meeting Altantuya at a condominium in London.

– https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/

My father is not a murderer, says Najib’s daughter

Nooryana Najwa Najib believes that the latest allegation against her father, former premier Najib Abdul Razak, is an attempt to divert public attention.

In an Instagram posting this afternoon, she described the allegation that her father ordered the killing of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu as slanderous.

“My father is not a murderer,” she exclaimed in capital letters.

“I just spent the last two hours listening to (former US) president (Barack) Obama speak about the need for political leaders to realise that ‘you are in this position to do your job and work for the people’.

“For a brief moment, I was rejuvenated. Then, I came home to see such slanderous claims promulgated to mask certain parties’ incompetencies,” she added.

Nooryana said it is the Malaysian people who would have to pay the price for such campaigns.

“And who is the biggest victim in all of these never ending games of betrayal and slander?

“It is the rakyat, our children, our grandchildren… Are we going to allow lies and deceit to be the new order of success in our country?” she asked.

Earlier, Najib also dismissed the allegation as a plot by the Pakatan Harapan government to shift the focus from his shortcomings.

Both father and daughter were commenting on a Malaysiakini exclusive report on the claims by former police special action force (UTK) personnel Azilah Hadri.

In admitting for the first time that he and Sirul Azhar Umar killed the Mongolian national, he claimed that he was merely following an explicit “shoot to kill” order from Najib, who was then the deputy premier.

These details were contained in an application filed by Azilah, who is seeking the Federal Court to review its decision in the conviction and death sentence imposed on him and Sirul, who is also a former UTK personnel, in 2015.

He is also seeking a retrial in order to provide full evidence on the clandestine operation in open court so that “justice will be served”.

The court has fixed tomorrow for case management.

Azilah, who is serving his sentence in the Kajang prison, claimed there was suppression of evidence and material facts during the proceedings at the High Court and Court of Appeal.

– M’kini