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The Confession that Never Was

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Mar 20, 2009
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See also: Sirul Azhar Statement

On November 9, 2006, at Kuala Lumpur's Travers police station, Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, then a 35-year-old member of the country's elite Special Action bodyguard unit under Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, sat down and confessed to the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu.

The dead woman, a Mongolian translator who had be…

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