Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said the investigation paper would be referred to the deputy public prosecutor to decide on further action.
This followed a report lodged by the Altantuya’s father, Shaariibuu Setev, at the Dang Wangi district police headquarters yesterday.
Kuala Lumpur deputy police chief Zainuddin Yaacob said police had also recorded a statement from Setev, who had also met Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Attorney-General Tommy Thomas.
Mahathir had given his approval during the meeting yesterday for the case to be reopened.
Shaariibuu’s lawyer, Ramkarpal Singh, said he had briefed the prime minister on the facts of the case.
“We gave him our reasons for wanting to reopen the case and he was in agreement as long as it’s in accordance with the rule of law.
“I hope something can happen within the next three to six months,” he had said after the meeting.
Under the Constitution, the attorney-general, as public prosecutor, has sole discretion over whether cases are prosecuted and can direct investigations by the police.
Altantuya, 28, was shot in the head twice and her body blown up with explosives at a secluded spot in Puncak Alam in 2006 by two police officers, Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar.
Both police officers were convicted of the murder in 2009 and sentenced to hang. The motive behind the murder was never revealed in court.
They were later released when an appeals court in 2013 overturned the conviction, ruling that the High Court judge had erred in his judgment.
The Federal Court upheld their death sentences in 2015. But by then, Sirul had fled to Australia and attempts to bring him back have hit a dead end as the country does not condone Malaysia’s capital punishment.
Sirul has been held at an immigration detention centre in Sydney for the past three years.
Altantuya was said to be the former lover of Abdul Razak Baginda – a former close associate of former prime minister Najib Razak – who was also charged in court but later acquitted without his defence being called. Razak was also involved in negotiations to buy two submarines for the Malaysian government.
Setev, in his police report, had urged police to reopen the case and question DSP Musa Safri, whom he named as a key witness.
Musa was a former aide-de-camp to Najib Razak, when he was deputy prime minister from 2004-2009. However, Musa was not called to testify at the trial of the two policemen.
Setev said during the trial, the prosecution had evidence that Musa had secured the attendance of Azilah and Sirul at Razak’s house on the night of Oct 19, 2006.
“I believe that if not for Musa, Azilah and Sirul would not have come to Razak’s house that day and taken my daughter away, and she would very likely still be alive today.”
Setev said he wanted to know who ordered the murder of his daughter 12 years ago.
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