In the wake of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad last week raising explosive questions about who was responsible for the 2006 murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu, Americk Sidhu, a senior lawyer in Kuala Lumpur, issued a public letter to Asia Sentinel and other media, saying for the “the first time in 34 years I have actually found myself in agreement” with the former premier. He added questions of his own.
Altantuya, a 28-year-old jet-setting beauty with expensive tastes, was murdered on Oct. 18, 2006. Two of the bodyguards of now-Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak were convicted of her murder in a trial that seemed rigged to make sure no questions would be asked about who agreed to pay the killers RM50,000 to RM100,000 to kill her. Musa Safri, then Najib’s aide de camp, has been identified as the person who sent the two to pick her up.
Altantuya played a minor role in the purchase of Scorpene submarines from the French defense contractor DCN that resulted in a €114.9 million bribe being steered to the United Malays National Organization and an additional €36 million that was steered to Abdul Razak Baginda, a prominent security analyst through whose company the kickback was steered and who later jilted her. In a letter found after her death, she admitted that she was attempting to blackmail Razak Baginda for US$500,000. Although her role may have been minor, she and Razak Baginda embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe at the end of the transaction during which she presumably gained some idea of the dimensions of the scandal.
The questions Mahathir was asking ”make sense,” Sidhu wrote, although Najib has put on a full-court press, with allies attacking Mahathir and issuing statements of full support for the premier. The government has also tabled “anti-terrorism” legislation that would allow suspects to be detained for 21 days solely on the word of a police inspector, extendable for an additional 38 days during which the suspect is not permitted access to counsel. Critics of the government fear the act could be used against them. Full story...
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Altantuya, a 28-year-old jet-setting beauty with expensive tastes, was murdered on Oct. 18, 2006. Two of the bodyguards of now-Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak were convicted of her murder in a trial that seemed rigged to make sure no questions would be asked about who agreed to pay the killers RM50,000 to RM100,000 to kill her. Musa Safri, then Najib’s aide de camp, has been identified as the person who sent the two to pick her up.
Altantuya played a minor role in the purchase of Scorpene submarines from the French defense contractor DCN that resulted in a €114.9 million bribe being steered to the United Malays National Organization and an additional €36 million that was steered to Abdul Razak Baginda, a prominent security analyst through whose company the kickback was steered and who later jilted her. In a letter found after her death, she admitted that she was attempting to blackmail Razak Baginda for US$500,000. Although her role may have been minor, she and Razak Baginda embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe at the end of the transaction during which she presumably gained some idea of the dimensions of the scandal.
The questions Mahathir was asking ”make sense,” Sidhu wrote, although Najib has put on a full-court press, with allies attacking Mahathir and issuing statements of full support for the premier. The government has also tabled “anti-terrorism” legislation that would allow suspects to be detained for 21 days solely on the word of a police inspector, extendable for an additional 38 days during which the suspect is not permitted access to counsel. Critics of the government fear the act could be used against them. Full story...
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