A police report has been lodged to urge the police to reopen investigations into the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu.

In his police report filed today, Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng said he wants the police to investigate the motives behind the act, as well as the persons responsible in instructing former police commandos Sirul Azhar Umar and Azilah Hadri to murder Altantuya.

Both the High Court and Federal Court did not make a decision on those responsible for instructing the duo to carry out the murder, and no motive was established, Lim pointed out.

Lim also noted Sirul's present willingness to give his statement on what had taken place at the time.

"The person responsible for ordering Altantuya's murder must be charged in court immediately for abetting in the murder of Altantuya," he said, according to the report.

Inspector-general of police Mohamad Fuzi Harun yesterday said the case might be reopened if there were fresh leads.

Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga had also urged Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to help the family of Altantuya seek justice.

Sirul and Azilah were attached to then-deputy prime minister Najib Abdul Razak's security detail at the time. They were convicted and sentenced to death for murder.

While Azilah is currently on death row, Sirul fled the country ahead of the Federal Court's verdict, and is now being held in an immigration detention centre in Australia.

Sirul last week said he is willing to return to Malaysia and reveal everything on condition that he is granted a full pardon.

Not evidence of absence

In a statement today, Sepang MP Hanipa Maidin agreed that the case should be reopened, noting that there remain unanswered questions over the murder. 

"Why were the suspects caught given bail before the trial for a case of this magnitude?

"Why did the attorney-general not make an appeal when the suspects were released at the end of the prosecution's case? I have brought up the issue in Parliament, and have written an article stating that 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence'," his statement read.

"Why was a relatively junior judge assigned to the case? Who ordered the killing? 

"If I am not mistaken, in the suspect's affidavit during the bail hearing, the issue of the 'confession' of the other suspect having 'ended lives of other victims' before was brought up. If so, why?" 

For the sake of justice, Hanipa noted, there should be a full disclosure of the facts of the case. 

'Probe 1MDB chief'

Meanwhile, Lim also lodged a police report against 1MDB CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy for allegedly making a false statement in relation to his repeated claims that 1MDB was not bankrupt and was able to pay off its debts through the company's debt 'rationalisation' plan.

"He knew there was basis to believe that there were crimes committed by former top 1MDB officials - that they abused the rakyat's money and committed other offences," he said in the report.

Lim added that there were also others - ministers, top officials from Bank Negara, the Finance Ministry, the police and the MACC - that could have been involved in covering up the 1MDB scandal.

"I believe they, including Arul, had breached sections 202 and 203 of the Penal Code, Section 592 of the Companies Act, and committed many other crimes," he said.

Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng has revealed that the previous BN government had spent around RM7 billion bailing out 1MDB, despite the company's repeated insistence that it could repay its own debts.