A year after chief inspector Azilah Hadri’s conviction for the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu, his lawyers today filed for clemency from the Selangor palace.

The application of slightly under 1,000 pages was submitted by his lead counsel Hazman Ahmad at the Selangor palace in Bukit Kayangan, Shah Alam this morning.

A copy of the application was also sent to Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali and Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali, who are part of the state pardons board.

Azilah along with corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, part of the elite Special Action Unit, were on Jan 13 sentenced by the Federal Court to death for Altantuya's murder.

The former chief inspector is currently in Kajang Prison awaiting the death sentence.

Sirul, who went missing while awaiting the verdict, is now at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre near Sydney.

He left the country in October 2014 after the two were initially freed by a Court of Appeal panel led by Apandi, who is now the AG.

Azilah and Sirul were jointly charged with murdering Altantuya at a jungle clearing atop a hill at Shah Alam between 10pm and 1am on July 18 and 19, 2006.

The third accused in the highly-publicised case was political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, a close confidante of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

He was acquitted by the Shah Alam High Court, and the prosecution subsequently chose not to appeal the acquittal on the grounds the court made a finding of fact.

Meanwhile, when contacted by Malaysiakini, Sirul's lawyer Hasnal Rezua Merican said his client would not be filing any application for clemency today.

Previously it was reported that Azilah and Sirul wanted a revision of the apex court decision that found them guilty of the murder.