{"id":2599,"date":"2019-12-16T15:27:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T07:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2019-12-21T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T12:08:00","slug":"ordering-altantuyas-death-najib-rubbishes-azilah-and-points-to-ph-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2599","title":{"rendered":"Ordering Altantuya’s death; Najib rubbishes Azilah and points to PH tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16 – Former Prime Minister Najib Razak has rubbished new claims by Azilah Hadri, one of the convicted killers of Altantuya Shaariibuu that he had ordered the latter to murder the Mongolian woman in 2006.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a complete fabrication by a desperate person seeking to escape the gallows,\u201d says Najib to online portal FMT<\/a> in response to Azilah Hadri\u2019s allegation from behind bars that he and Sirul Azhar Umar; who fled to Australia after they were sentenced to death, had received a \u201cshoot to kill\u201d order, as reported by MalaysiaKini<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to reports, this new claim by Azilah is\u00a0contained in an application to review the Federal Court\u2019s decision in 2015 which found him and Sirul guilty of the murder.<\/p>\n

Najib has repeatedly rejected allegations of his involvement in the murder which has always been linked to him because of a\u00a02002 purchase of two French-built Scorpene-class submarines and alleged kickbacks by Razak Baginda, was an aide to Najib, the defence minister at the time.<\/p>\n

Altantuya was reported to have a relationship with Razak. Razak was charged with abetting Azilah and Sirul but was questionably acquitted without his defence being called.<\/p>\n

Najib questions the timing and points to Pakatan Harapan tactics<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did this information not come out earlier, and only now, more than a decade after her death and only after 19 months PH has been in power? \u201d asked Najib.<\/p>\n

Najib also described the latest allegations against him as the work of a \u201cdesperate man\u201d, saying that it serves Pakatan Harapan\u2019s intention to \u201cdivert public attention from its failures\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe this is a deal struck between the Harapan (PH) government and Azilah, with the latter\u2019s death sentence being commuted or delayed in return.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an attempt to distract attention and to hit out at me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

–NMT<\/em><\/p>\n

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