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Former
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan speaking at a news
conference, September 14, 2015. — Picture by Choo Choy MayKUALA
LUMPUR, Sept 14 — A former inspector-general of police today revealed
that it was Datuk Seri Najib Razak who urged the former to do his duty
and arrest Razak Baginda in connection with the 2006 murder of Mongolian
Altantuya Shaariibuu.Tan Sri Musa Hassan said he had told Najib, who was deputy prime minister at the time, that the police planned to arrest his former aide over the Mongolian’s disappearance during a briefing at the behest of the then Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
“When I met him, I told him I wanted to arrest Razak Baginda over his involvement in the missing person’s case,” Musa said of the meeting.
“And the DPM at the time said to me ‘do your job.’ So he asked me to catch him,” he added at a news conference here.
He insisted however, that Najib was not involved in the brutal murder of Altantuya.
“The police investigation also didn’t show there was any involvement of Datuk Seri Najib himself in this case. There is no evidence to show that Datuk Seri Najib was involved,” he said.
steadyaku47 comment : After I read about the ex IGP insistence that Najib was not involved with the murder of Altantuya this piece from Haris Ibrahim makes you question the ex IGP's spin.
Najib told me to do my job and arrest Razak Baginda, says former top cop
Former
IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan says Datuk Seri Najib Razak encouraged him to
do his job and arrest Abdul Razak Baginda over Altantuya Shaariibuu's
murder. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Afif Abd Halim, September 14,
2015.Former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan today revealed that Datuk Seri Najib Razak had encouraged him to do his job and arrest the suspect for the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, that is Abdul Razak Baginda. Musa said that he had first informed the-then prime minister Tun Abdullah Badawi about the case, but was told to inform Najib, who was his deputy, as Razak was the latter's adviser.
"After the PM (Abdullah) came back from overseas, I told him who was involved. I said that police wanted to arrest Razak Baginda. The PM asked me to inform the deputy prime minister, whom I later met.
"He (Najib) said to me... do your job," Musa said in a press conference today.
The other half of that coin, overlooked
Posted on September 14, 2015
Rather
decent of ex-IGP Musa Hassan, I thought, to step forward to shed some
light on the resuscitated Altantuya saga following on the latest
Al-Jazeera.
Malaysiakini reports today that Musa has again asserted that Najib is not in any way connected to the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Musa’s factual basis for this insistence?
This excerpt from Malaysiakini tells his story.
“Musa said he briefed then prime
minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on the police’s intention to arrest Abdul
Razak Baginda, a close associate of Najib, in connection with the case.
‘Pak Lah (Abdullah) told me to
inform Najib (who was then deputy prime minister) and I told him there
was no need to do so,” he told a press conference.
However, upon the insistence of Abdullah, Musa met Najib and briefed him on the matter.
Musa said when he informed Najib, he replied: “Do your job”.
Maybe Musa is cluless or has completely forgotten the following.
On the morning that Abdul Razak Baginda was arrested in connection
with the Altantuya murder, he received the following sms from Najib :
“I am seeing IGP at 11am today. matter will be solved. be cool.”
The fact of this sms was disclosed by private investigator
Balasubramaniam in his first statutory declaration in July 2008 and has
never been denied by either Razak Baginda or Najib.
For the sake of completeness, I should mention that on the morning of
16th November, 2006, when Razak Baginda was due to be charged in
connection with the murder of Altantuya, Najib sent the following sms to
lawyer Mohd Shafee Abdullah :
“Pls do not say anything to the press today. i will explain later. RB will have to face a tentative charge but all is not lost”
On 31st October, 2008, Razak Baginda, without being called to enter
his defence, was acquitted of the charge, referred to by Dato Seri Najib
as “tentative”, of abetting in the murder of Altantuya. At the time,
lead prosecutor DPP Tun Majid Tun Hamzah intimated that the acquittal
might be appealed, saying, “We will consider appealing the decision. The
battle is not over yet”.
14 days later, the same DPP confirmed that the acquittal would not be appealed.
Do your job?
The question is, what was the then IGP’s job scope?
Uncover or cover up?
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