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Saturday, April 4, 2015

Altantuya’s probe complete, no reason to reopen case, says deputy police chief

The deputy IGP today said there was no need to reopen Altantuya Shaariibuu's murder case. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, April 4, 2015.The deputy IGP today said there was no need to reopen Altantuya Shaariibuu's murder case. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, April 4, 2015.The police have no reason to reopen the murder case of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu, Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim said today, as an investigation was completed and the court have made its decision.
The Deputy Inspector-General of Police said that the police would not prevent anyone from lodging further reports on the case, but the force would have to look at the matter closely before deciding on the next course of action.
"We have investigated the Altantuya case, we have gone to court and a verdict has been announced. There is no reason to reopen the case.
"We may take action or we may not. I must look into this carefully," he said when met by reporters at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur today.
Rashid was commenting on the police report lodged by PAS Youth Chief Suhaizan Kaiat, who had urged for Altantuya's murder case to be reopened.
Suhaizan today also said that police should take the former prime minister’s comments seriously and that Dr Mahathir must cooperate with police to facilitate investigations, especially if he had any information.
Rashid, however, was non-committal when asked about convicted killer, Sirul Azhar Umar's claim that Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar had lied in saying that police sent people to Australia to meet him.
He said the question should be directed to Khalid as the matter was not under his purview.
"Ask the IGP. I can't comment.
"I am not sure. Maybe the IGP has knowledge of it. I would not have known about it because I was focused on something else. This is out of my knowledge.”
On the arrests of The Malaysian Insider's editors and top executives under the Sedition Act, Rashid said the decision to use the Act was done after a long discussion held over the publishing of the March 25 article.
"Before making any arrest, we have to study it. And we found elements contained under the Section 2 of the Act, related to the Malay Rulers.
"We went through the words used, its meaning before deciding.”
As for the development of the case, he said investigations were ongoing.
Two senior executives and three editors from The Edge and The Malaysian Insider were arrested earlier this week under the Sedition Act over a report published on March 25, which said the Conference of Rulers had rejected a proposal to amend a federal law that would pave the way for hudud to be enforced in Kelantan.
The Malaysian Insider managing editor Lionel Morais, Bahasa news editor Amin Iskandar and features and analysis editor Zulkifli Sulong were arrested on Monday evening and released on bail the following night after the magistrate's court rejected the police application to remand them further for investigation.
The Edge publisher Ho Kay Tat and The Malaysian Insider chief executive Jahabar Sadiq were also arrested on Tuesday and released the next day.
- TMI

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