Saturday, June 28, 2008

They all deny involvement in murder case

Prime Minster Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, his son-in-law, and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib are all denying allegations made by Raja Petra Kamarudin in his statutory declaration.

Najib dismissed that his wife was involved in the murder of Mongolian translator, Altantuya Shaaribuu.

Najib said the allegations that his wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, was there at the crime scene as “total lies, fabrication and total garbage”.

He said Rosmah has given her statement to the police. “I welcome the police investigation and I hope they would be concluded soon,” he said when asked by reporters.

Najib also said the declaration was a “desperate and pathetic attempt to taint my political image.”

Meanwhile, Abdullah was reported saying that he did not receive any reports from Military Intelligence regarding the case. Khairy Jamaluddin also denied having received any reports from any party about the murder case.

“I told the police that I have never received any military intelligence report on the murder of Altantuya from the Prime Minister or from any other quarters. Nor have I received any other report from anyone about the murder.

“I don’t have, I’ve not kept any such report and I don’t know anything about the murder,” he told the press.

On June 18, Raja Petra filed a statutory declaration at High Court that he was reliably informed on the presence of three other people at the scene of the crime. They were Rosmah, acting colonel Aziz Buyong who is ‘a C4 expert’ and his wife, only known as Norhayati, who is said to be Rosmah’s aide de camp.

Raja Petra also claimed that Abdullah has received a report from the Military Intelligence about this, then the Prime Minister handed the report to his son-in-law for safe-keeping.

Altantuya’s was reportedly blown to pieces after she was shot dead. Policemen Cif Inspektor Azilah Hadri and Korperal Sirul Azhar Umar, both who are from the Special Action Force, are charged with committing the murder. Political analysis Abdul Razak Baginda is accused of abetting them.

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