Is UMNO Paying a Convicted Murderer’s Legal Fees?

Apr 30, 2015

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Immediately after he was detained in Australia, police constable Sirul Azhar Umar, the bodyguard who was convicted of the 2006 murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, caused a storm in Malaysia by telling the news site Malaysiakini that the Mongolian translator’s murderers were still free.

For a relatively short period, reporters were allowed free access to Siru…

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