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STATEMENT BY THE ALTANTUYA SHAARIIBUU FOUNDATION
Posted by adminSunday, 04 October 2009 14:13
UNDAY will mark the start of MalaysianPrime Minister Datuk Seri
Najib TunRazaks first official four-day visit to
France to discuss bilateral, regional andinternational issues
with top French leadersincluding President Nicolas Sarkozy and
PrimeMinister Francois Fillon.
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France is one of Malaysia 's key tradingpartners with bilateral
trade in 2008 reachinga total of RM13.91 billion. Currently,
severalFrench companies operate in Malaysia
including Lafarge (cement), Technip(infrastructure for gas and
oil exploration),Alcatel (telecommunications), Alstom (energyand
railway equipment) and Carrefour(retail).
However what was omitted from mainstreamreports in Malaysia and
France is that Najibsince assuming Premiership in March 2008
iseasily the most controversial Prime Ministersince political
independence in 1957 as he hasbeen linked, through two policemen in
charge
of his protection and according to thestatutory declaration of a
private investigator,to a murder case. And we are not talking ofany
normal murder case but the gruesomemurder of a beautiful Mongolian
womanAltantuya Shariibuu connected to thepurchase of French
submarines worth a billioneuros.
How is Najib linked then? Apparently, she wasintroduced by Najib
to Abdul Razak Baginda,a close friend and defense analyst from
the
Malaysian Strategic Research Centre think-tank, to work for the
deal Baginda wasbrokering for the Malaysian government tobuy three
submarines from France for onebillion euros. According to the same
privateinvestigator, the duo quickly becameromantically
involved.
In October 2006, Altantuya was informed thatthe commission of
114 million euros was paidinto the account of Perimekar, a
companyBaginda controlled. Altantuya then went to
Kuala Lumpur to demand her share of thecommission, which was to
have beenUS$500,000. She went missing on 19 October2006. In the
last letter she wrote before hermurder, she said that she had
beenblackmailing Baginda. The private investigatorwho linked PM
Najib to Altantuya a few daysafter reneged on his first statement
and thendisappeared.
The Malaysian police found fragments of herbone in a forested
area in Shah Alam, some
30 km from Kuala Lumpur . Policeinvestigation revealed that she
was shot twicebefore C4 explosives were used on herremains. Baginda
and two members of thepolice force were arrested and charged forher
murder. The two murder suspects AzilahHadri, 30 and Sirul Azhar
Umar, 35 aremembers of the elite Unit Tindakan Khas (theMalaysian
Police Special Action Force orcounter-terrorism unit) and were
bothassigned to the office of the then DeputyPrime Minister Najib
Tun Razak, who was alsothe Defence Minister. Both policemen
werefound guilty and sentenced to death whileBaginda was acquitted.
The MalaysianAttorney General has not appealed onBagindas acquittal
and he is now a free man.
The father of Altantuya, Professor ShariibuuSetev who had tried
but failed to seeksatisfactory justice and accountability
inMalaysia will issue a statement in Paris tohighlight his
daughters murder and how itslinked to the Malaysian Prime Minister
and thebillion euro French submarine deal.
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