The father of slain Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu has denied receiving any funds from former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak.

"I've heard this kind of talk that Najib already paid money to me but it's not true," Setev Shaariibuu said at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today.

He jested that Najib's funds seized by the new federal government should be going to him and his family.

Setev and his grandchildren are suing the government for compensation for the death of Altantuya.

Setev said this when asked about speculation that Najib had paid him off.

Setev and his grandchildren are suing the government for compensation to the tune of RM100 million for the death of Altantuya

Asked if anyone else from BN had tried to pay him off, Setev, through his Mongolian translator Tugsbayar, said one person had "tried to be a hero" but that nothing came of it.

Tugsbayar later clarified that this (somebody wanting to pay Setev) was also just a rumour.

"It is just a rumour that there was this person who wanted to be a hero and give money, but there was no such person," the translator said.

Setev's lawyer Ramkarpal Singh said the quantum sought would be subject to an assessment by the courts should he succeed in his civil suit.

The defendants in the civil suit are ex-police commandos Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar Umar, Altantuya's former lover Razak Baginda and the government of Malaysia.

The previous BN government had filed an application to exclude itself from the suit.

The Altantuya murder haunted the previous BN regime for years over speculation that she was killed because she had inside knowledge relating to Malaysia's 2002 purchase of two Scorpene submarines from France and huge kickbacks allegedly given to Najib and his cronies.

Najib has repeatedly denied knowing Altantuya or of having any involvement in her murder.

Altantuya, 28, was shot dead and her body blown up with military-grade plastic explosives, C4, in a forest area of Shah Alam in October 2006.

Sirul and Azilah (above) were convicted of her murder in 2009 and sentenced to hang. They were later released when the Court of Appeal court overturned the conviction in 2013, ruling that the High Court judge had erred.

However, the Federal Court upheld their death sentences in 2015. Sirul fled the country ahead of that ruling while Azhar is currently on death row.

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