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Altantuya murder: Sirul, our man in OZ…

Former chief inspector Azilah Hadri, the other killer of Altantuya Shaariibuu

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21 January 2016

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Sirul in video: Some tried to use me to oust someone

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A video, purportedly of former police commando Sirul Azhar Umar, has surfaced in which he claims certain quarters and the media attempted to use him to “topple and slander” an unnamed individual.

In the two minutes and fifty-one second video which Malaysiakini had sighted via a source who declined to be identified, Sirul repeated his lawyers‘ earlier allegations that unnamed parties are trying to use him to further their spurious agenda.

“I want to explain and elaborate on the media statement issued by my lawyers in Kuala Lumpur recently,” said the former policeman, who is currently being held in an immigration detention centre in Australia.

“After the statement was made, just a few days after that, there were still some parties who took the opportunity to contact me here,” he continued in calm monotone in the footage which appears to have been recorded on a mobile communications device.

“I want to say here that I have no interest whatsoever to make any statements after this,” he said.

Referring to the earlier statement by his lawyers that certain parties are trying to use him to further their own agenda, Sirul said he no longer has the time to entertain such distractions as he is precoccupied with applying for asylum in Australia.

“As we know, my lawyer Kamarul Hisham Kamaruddin himself has said, there are certain processes, including immigration and legal matters ongoing here that need my attention.

“So I now want to fully focus my time and energy to be able to stay here, in my application to remain here,” he reiterated.
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In the video, Sirul also revealed that some media also tried to use him.

“Before this we know that the media have been playing its part (to cover my case), though there are some media who played a role which I find discomfiting,” he said.

However, he said this is not blanket statement, but “that some quarters and some media are playing a role in an attempt to topple and slander an individual.”

Sirul however did not name the parties or media, nor the individual that they were trying to topple and slander, but it was an obvious reference to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/327781

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Convicted Malaysian cop Sirul Azhar Umar breaks silence about death of model Altantuya Shaariibuu

A Malaysian police commander sentenced to hang in Kuala Lumpur has broken his silence from Sydney’s Villawood detention centre, saying he was ordered to kill a Mongolian socialite at the centre of high-level corruption allegations in Malaysia.

Sirul Azhar Umar said he was acting under orders when he twice shot glamorous 28-year-old translator Altantuya Shaariibuu in the head as she begged for the life of her unborn child and then wrapped her body with military explosives and blew her up.

“I was under orders. The important people with motive are still free,” Sirul, a former bodyguard of Malaysia’s prime minister Najib Razak, told the Malaysiakini news portal by telephone.

“It is not like I do not love the police (force) or the country, but I acted under orders,” he said.

Sirul told Malaysiakini he has been negotiating a tell-all interview with Australian television stations where he is considering revealing why he and police colleague Azilah Hadri killed Ms Shaariibuu in a jungle patch on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.

“I haven’t decided (on whether) to do the interview,” he said.

Allegations have simmered for eight years that Ms Shaariibuu was murdered to keep her quiet about purported kick-backs to high-level Malaysian officials over the US$2 billion purchase of two French and Spanish-built Scorpene submarines when Mr Najib was defence minister.

Ms Shaariibuu, described as sophisticated jet-setting party girl, worked as a translator in the later stages of negotiations.

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2890643/convicted-malaysian-cop-sirul-azhar-umar-breaks-silence-about-death-of-model-altantuya-shaariibuu/?cs=5

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