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MP urges IGP to arrest those behind Sirul's videos
Published:  Feb 15, 2016 10:36 AM
Updated: 5:21 AM

Inspector-general of police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar has been urged to investigate the parties behind video statements that fugitive convict Sirul Azhar Umar has been releasing to the media.

Commenting on the videos reported by Malaysiakini over the past weeks, Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng said the revelations by the former officer sentenced to death for the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu have left key questions unanswered.

While Sirul has reportedly said he plans to reveal who has been attempting to get him to implicate Prime Minister Najib Razak in the gruesome murder, Lim said the ex-officer should first address the question of the identity of the one who had given him the order.

“I also want to urge the IGP to order the arrest of those who have conspired with Sirul to produce the video ‘confessions’ to investigate who had ordered the murder of Altantuya,” said Lim in a statement today.

“Before Sirul and his associates who had helped him with the recorded video confessions expose (the five names), he should rightfully first answer five questions that involve public interest,” he said, namely:

1. Who had ordered the murder of Altantuya?

2. What were the rewards or payments that were promised to him after she was murdered?

3. Who gave him permission for the use of the (restricted army issued) C4 explosives?

4. Who organised Sirul’s exit to Australia without informing the authorities?

5. How many killings had Sirul been ordered to perform previously, and who were the victims?

Sirul and his partner chief inspector Azilah Hadri were finally sentenced to death last year for the murder of Altantuya, after a long-drawn-out trial and appeals proceedings, that earlier saw the duo acquitted.

The two 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 Najib’s.

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

Sirul managed to flee to Australia after the initial acquittal, and is now being held at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre near Sydney.

Azilah is currently in Kajang Prison awaiting the death sentence and has filed for clemency .

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