Mongolian Model Murder : Altantuya’s Friends Say They Were Threatened : UB Post Reports
Posted by Nick Tay
Since I am in Ulaanbator, Mongolia now, I decided to post whats on the local papers. The English papers are a weekly affair, and I can’t read the Mongolia Dailys. Here’s what was on the front page of June 28, 2007 Edition.
Altantuya’s Friends Say They Were Threatened
By Ch. SumiyabazarTHREE Mongolians - the father of the murdered Sh.Altantuya, amd a cousin and a friend of hers - testified on Monday before the Malaysian court trying two policemen from Malaysian Special Action Squad for the murder and Abdul Razak Baginda for abetting it. Baginda is known as a political analyst, an arms dealer, and is close to the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister. Altantuya had worked for him as an interpreter.
The Malaysian National News Agency, had reported that on the sixth day of the trial G. Naniraa, 23, the victims cousin and their friend G.Uuriintuya, 30, were visited more than once at their hotel by an assistant of a private investigator, P.Balasubramaniam, hired by Baginda. The vistor threatened to kill them and to throw them out of the window.
“None of his visits were friendly. Every time he came, he said ‘Razak Baginda sends me to kill you.’ Of course it was not pleasant,” Namiraa said. “K.Sures Kumar came to our room two to three times in October 2006, and stayed for between half and hour and five hours. He once slept on our bed from 5am to 10am. We just stood around, scared and not knowing what to do.”
Uuriintuya said that they had been told to return to Mongolia. A Malaysian newspaper has reported that the women lodged a report with the local police at the time of the threats.
Namiraa and Uurriintuya, friends of Altantuya for more than two years, visited Malaysia with her in October 2006 to look for English language courses available there.
Dr.S.Shariiibuu. the 57-year-old father of Sh. Altantuya, broke down when he was asked to identify a picture of his daughter. When the Deputy Public Prosecutor, Manoj Kurup, asked him if he could tell the court the name of the woman in the picture, Dr.Shaariibuu did not answer immediately. He then explained that the Mongolian custom was never to take name of the dead, but to refer to them only as “the deceased”. “But if you want me to, I can tell you her name….Altantuya,”he said before bursting into tears.
He said the police officers from the Kuala Lumpur Serious Crimes Division had come to him at his hotel together with a doctor and a nurse to take his blood sample for a DNA test after he had arrived in Malaysia on November 9, 2006.
“That was when you knew your daughter was dead?” asked Kurup. Dr.Shaariibuu replied,”I was praying to God that my daughter was safe but I knew she was dead once the DNA’s matched”.
Continuing her testimony the next day, Uuriintuya told the court how she had been held up at the airport for two hours when she was leaving Malaysia as her entry records were found to be deleted. “On November 24, I left with Altantuya’s father but at the airport we had a problem because immigration officials did not have record of Altantuya, Namiraa or me entering the country. Our data had been deleted in their computer. I was still holding my air ticket so when they asked me how I came into the country I showed them.”
Karpal Singh, who is holding a watching brief for Altantuya’s family and the Mongolian government, then pointed out that the matter had to be noted.
Altantuya, 28, was shot twice and her body then blown up with C4 military use explosives between 10pm on October20, 2006 near the city of Shah Alam, in Malaysia.
All three of the accused could receive the death penalty if the charges against them are proven.
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