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Family of Altantuya, murdered by cops, files bankruptcy notice against Razak Baginda
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 29, 2024: The family of murdered Mongolian French translator Altantuya Shaariibuu has filed a bankruptcy notice against political analyst Razak Baginda.
Razak was a close associate of former prime minister and Umno president Najib “1MDB” Razak who was then the Defence Minister.
Najib is now languishing in prison for stealing from the country’s Soverign Wealth Fund (SWF) 1Malaysia Development Berhad.
Altantuya was murdered by two police commandos who also used military-grade C4 explosives to blow her body into smithereens.
Razak, who together with the government and two former policemen, were found jointly and severally liable for her unlawful killing 18 years ago.
The family has also filed a civil action against the government to enforce the judgment, with Putrajaya opposing it.
Till today, 18 years after, the Government still refuses to determine or reveal or find out who gave the instructions to the police commandos to execute Altantuya and the reason for execution.
Neither has it been revealed where and how the police commandos got hold of the military-grade C4 explosives.
No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the family filing the bankruptcy notice:
Altantuya’s family files bankruptcy notice against Razak Baginda
-28 Aug 2024, 09:00 PM
The political analyst has, in response, applied for a stay and to also set aside the notice and judgment debtor summons.
The family of Altantuya Shaariibuu filed a bankruptcy notice and judgment debtor summons against political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda early this month.
PETALING JAYA: The family of murdered Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu has filed a bankruptcy notice and judgment debtor summons against political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, who together with the government and two former policemen, were found jointly and severally liable for her unlawful killing 18 years ago.
The government, Razak and the two former policemen, Sirul Azhar Umar and Azilah Hadri, were ordered to pay RM5 million in damages to the family.
The lawyer for Altantuya’s family, Sangeet Kaur Deo, said Razak had, however, applied to the High Court in Shah Alam to stay the bankruptcy notice and judgment debtor summons pending the disposal of his appeal in the Court of Appeal.
The family filed the applications early this month and there was a subsequent response from Razak, she told FMT.
Sangeet said Razak had also applied to set aside the bankruptcy notice and judgment debtor summons.
She also said the Court of Appeal would conduct a case management tomorrow to determine a date to hear the appeal against the Dec 16, 2022, High Court ruling.
The government and Razak, who previously admitted to being in a romantic relationship with Altantuya, have appealed against the quantum and liability.
Meanwhile, the family has filed a cross-appeal seeking a higher compensation.
The family has also filed a civil action against the government to enforce the judgment, with Putrajaya opposing it.
The court has fixed Sept 19 to hear their applications.
Altantuya was shot in the head in 2006 in a forest in Puncak Alam. Her body was later blown up with explosives.
Azilah and Sirul were found guilty and sentenced to death for her murder.
Razak, a former aide to then deputy prime minister Najib Razak, was charged with abetting the duo, but was acquitted without his defence being called.
Sirul, who was freed from Australian immigration detention in November last year and is now living in Canberra, and Azilah, who is on death row at Kajang prison, did not challenge the family’s suit.
In his written judgment released last month, Justice Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera said he had to draw an adverse inference against Razak after the latter elected not to testify under oath or call witnesses in the suit.
Vazeer said Sirul and Azilah had also admitted to several police officers that they had caused Altantuya’s unlawful death by first shooting her with a firearm and then blowing her body to smithereens by strapping it with military grade explosives.
He said Razak’s conduct before and after the death of the victim gave rise to the irresistible inference that he conspired and colluded with the policemen.
Vazeer said Sirul and Azilah had no reasons of their own to kill Altantuya.
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