Hanipa: Who lied, Najib or Altantuya's cousin?
De facto Deputy Law Minister Mohamed Hanipa Maidin said today that either former prime minister Najib Razak or the cousin of the slain Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu must be lying.
As Hanipa noted, Najib claimed he swore in a mosque that he never met Altantuya, while Burmaa Oyunchimeg testified under oath that she saw the photographs of her cousin Altantuya with two men – Abdul Razak Baginda and the "deputy prime minister" named Razak.
"So, the logic is that either one of them had lied. The cousin who testified in court under oath, or the former prime minister who accused her of lying. We don't know.
"The difference is that (when) he accused the cousin of lying, it was done outside the court and not under oath," he said in a statement.
Burmaa, a witness in the RM100 million civil suit brought by Altantuya's family, reaffirmed yesterday that she saw the photograph of Altantuya with two men.
Najib subsequently reiterated that he had never met Altantuya.
Sin or perjury?
"If the cousin lied under oath in court, it's called 'perjury'. If the former premier lied after he swore in the mosque, it is called 'sin'," Hanipa said.
"In this world, both situations happened – people lie although under oath and people lie in the mosque even after swearing. Forgive (me), I'm just making a statement."
Altantuya's gruesome murder in 2006 has haunted Najib for the past 13 years, despite his repeated denials of any involvement and being cleared by the authorities.
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In January 2015, the Federal Court overturned an earlier Court of Appeal decision and sentenced former police special operations force personnel Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar Umar to death for the murder.
However, Sirul had fled to Australia when the Court of Appeal acquitted the pair.
He is now being held at an immigration detention centre in Sydney, since Australian law forbids deporting those who face the death sentence in their home countries.
Razak Baginda, who was accused of abetting the two former police officers in her murder, was acquitted.
Abolish the death penalty and bring Sirul back that way we can't hang any one from the Najib camp for the crime even is they are found guilty, but that will bring Sirul back and two cops can then give their evidence in court face to face with Najib, Razak Baginda and they may even pull Rosmah into the picture. Well you really can't tell with Najib and Rosmah there many surprises
Najib once claimed he did not know Jho Low that has been proven to be a lie. He has told lie after lie to get away with his wrongdoings and I am most certain this is another one. Going to the Mosque and taking an oath is not the Standard for investigations in a murder trial, and for the police to stop investigations into his possible involvement on that oath is manifestly wrong. Why did he have to go to a Mosque swear on the Quran, if he was not involved, if he wasn't he should have asked the police to investigate the case.
Who will trust the lying Najib. It is like the RM2.6 Billion donation. Poodah!!!!