Now that the Federal Court has commuted Azilah Hadri’s death sentence to 40 years in jail and 12 rotan strokes, is the AG going to reopen and investigate his claim as contained in his application to the Federal Court made earlier?
According to this article by R Nadeswaran titled Najib ordered me to kill Altantuya' - Azilah's shocking allegation from death row published in Dec 16, 2019 in the MalaysiaKini platform, Azilah Hadri in his application to the Federal Court to review its decision in the conviction and death sentence imposed on him and also seeking a retrial in order to provide full evidence on the clandestine operation in open court so that "justice will be served" claimed the following:-
- there was suppression of evidence and material facts during the proceedings at the High Court and Court of Appeal,
- in a statutory declaration (SD) dated Oct 17, 2019, sighted by Malaysiakini, Azilah claimed Najib ordered him to “arrest and destroy” Altantuya, whom the then deputy prime minister described as a "foreign spy" and a "threat to national security",
- he asked the then Deputy Prime Minister what he meant by arrest and destroy the foreign spy, the DPM 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 of the foreign spy's body with an explosive device to remove the traces and the explosives can be obtained from the UTK store (armoury)",
- The then DPM told him to be “cautious of the female foreign spy as she is a smart talker and is cunning – one of which (is for Altantuya to claim) she is pregnant.”
Altantuya’s father was magnanimous enough and obviously wants to move on by writing to the Courts to formally request a commutation of Azilah’s sentence to life imprisonment which Azilah’s lawyer relied on for his client’s penalty review bid.
What about Sirul Azhar Umar, who cowardly ran and hide in Australia pending the appeal by the office of the Attorney General of his case in Malaysia, allegations which he made in an interview with Al-Jazeera's 101 East programme aired on 24 Nov 2023 wherein he claimed he received RM1mil from a prominent politically-linked lawyer and a top Cabinet leader for his silence on the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder?
Don’t both matter i.e the allegations by Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar deserved to be investigated?
As Azilah reportedly said in the article by R Nadeswaran, his purpose for disclosing the evidence and material facts is also to hope that his colleagues in the UTK and the police force will be careful in executing orders so that the issue of betrayal and being made a scapegoat will not recur in the future.
Based on the silence coming from the AG's Chambers, it appears that Azilah will not be able to see his purpose for disclosing the evidence and material facts achieved any sooner or ever.
Even Najib, he who himself was named in the allegations expressed surprise that the present government who when they were in the opposition also named him and joined in the allegations, cried out at the inaction of the government to reopen investigations into this case.
As a matter, it was Najib himself, in Feb 2019 who questioned why the Pakatan Harapan government had yet to reopen investigations into several high-profile murders he is continually linked to by his political foes even after his aide had lodged a police report in October 2018 in a bid to reopen the cases and clear his name.
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