Several telephone calls were made between political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda and the first accused, chief inspector Azilah Hadri, on the night of Altantuya Shaariibuu's murder.
These include one shortly before the murder - stipulated on the charge sheet as between 10pm on Oct 19, 2006 and 1am Oct 20, 2006 - which saw Azilah and corporal Sirul Azhar Umar being convicted and sentenced to death.
Azilah had called Abdul Razak, a close confidant of then deputy prime minister Najib Razak, at 9.41pm on Oct 19, 2006, and the phone conversation lasted 40 seconds.
The call was recorded by the phone company within the vicinity of the Jalan Duta toll booth. The next day, at 10.41am, Azilah again talked to Abdul Razak for 32 seconds.
Azilah and Sirul (right) - both of whom were part of the security detail to protect the deputy premier - were jointly convicted in 2008 of murdering the Mongolian woman in a jungle clearing in Shah Alam six years ago.
However, the nature of conversation between Abdul Razak and Azilah was not known.
Azilah and Sirul took Altantuya outside Abdul Razak's home in Damansara Heights on the evening of Oct 19, after private investigator P Balasubramaniam, who was then working for the political analyst, handed her over to them.
Abdul Razak and his family were not at home at that time as they had gone out to break fast (it was Ramadan).
Azilah, however, had stated in his defence that he was nowhere near the vicinity of the said murder scene but claimed he was having a meal with his fiancee, Norazila Baharuddin, in Wangsa Maju.
The phone records are stated in the 70-page judgment by Shah Alam High Court judge Mohd Zaki Md Yasin, which was released recently following his verdict delivered over two years ago.
Longest call lasted a minute
There were also a number of other phone calls between Azilah and Abdul Razak on Oct 19 - the night of the murder - beginning at 7.57pm, then again at 8.36pm, 8.41pm, 8.54pm, 8.55pm, 9.08pm and the final one at 9.41pm.
The longest call of the seven calls was made by Abdul Razak to Azilah which lasted one minute.
The phone logs were used to prove that the two accused were close to the murder scene but judge Zaki did not touch on the nature of the phone conversations.
He however noted that the phone call records were heavily challenged by the defence team, which claimed they were not authentic and that they could have been altered or tampered with.
"As for me, I must admit that these data and their operations as explained by all those witnesses are highly technical. Thus, in the absence of other rebuttal witnesses, I am accepting the evidence on the face of it.
"All four (phone company) witnesses had testified as to the creation, production, arrangement and validation of those logs, the data of which were retrieved from their data system," said the judge.
The phone records dated between Oct 18, 2006 and Oct 28, 2006 run six pages in the written judgment.
Unanswered questions
It is learnt that the full judgment of the sensational murder case was not provided to the lawyers involved in the trial, but was published in the Current Law Journal 2012 1 CLJ.
The lengthy judgment also mentioned a note written by Abdul Razak, which was found on Azilah's bag with Abdul Razak's full address and his father's full name - Abdullah Malim Baginda.
This, the judge ruled, "was wholly consistent of an innocent man" seeking Azilah's help for the police to patrol the vicinity of Abdul Razak's house following the alleged blackmail by Altantuya, who was his former lover.
There are also the issue of alleged threats made by Abdul Razak when private eye Balasubramaniam (left) and his assistant K Suras Kumar went to Altantuya's room at Hotel Malaya, which was not addressed in the judgment.
Neither were allegations that Altantuya's travel records of entering Malaysia were allegedly deleted.
No motive was established for the murder and the judge said that while motive is relevant, it is not essential.
Both Azilah and Sirul have since filed an appeal against their convictions and the Court of Appeal will be setting a date tomorrow to hear the application.
The appeal has been pending for two years while awaiting the completion of the written judgment by Zaki.
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Motive for MURDER? Bolehsia says, "Who Cares!?"
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Mong MUST RESIGN!!
Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00:00 — 109.9MB)
On our show today, we follow up on nationwide disapproval against infamous YB Mong Dagang who refused to apologize for terminating a pro-opposition disable farmer’s subsidies.
Instead, Mong went extra mile to criticize the man with physical disabilities for not ‘appreciating’ the government’s assistance in a 40 -minute long press conference.
To quote the inhumane Mong, “I feel I am not wrong…. Frusis can climb a fruit tree …only some deform in his hands and legs… I have proof Frusis assisted the Opposition….”
Hear the snippet of Mong’s defensive statement on our show today.
Also, we bring you comments from all walks of life, including activist Nicholas Mujah, a visually impaired welfare recipient, and politicians from both Pakatan Rakyat and Barisan Nasional who condemn this fundamentally undemocratic act, which is plainly abuse of power.
Meanwhile, a former civil servant wishes to have an open debate with Mong who does not understand the meaning of democracy and the definition of OKU.
Next, a headman from Simunjan explains why they reject BN’s new concept to develop their NCR land. Listen to his big plan.
And, will SPDP leaders welcome a new political party Parti Tenaga Rakyat Sarawak (TERAS) set up by the expelled SPDP 5? How about the promised resthouse at Sarawak General Hospital? Our presenters tell you more.
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Sunday, 4 March 2012
ROSIE'S "Premier Award" and MoE's "Premier University"
Stevens Institute of Technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...Technology
NJ Attorney General Matter
In 2009, after a two-year investigation by the New Jersey Attorney General…
• 90 Pages of Scandal | Inside Higher Ed
Sep 18, 2009 ... 90 Pages of Scandal ... Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey's attorney
general filed a lawsuit Thursday that describes the institute's top ...
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/18/stevens
Stevens Institute of Technology and Chief Face Accusations - NYTimes.com -http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12...wanted=all
The turmoil at Stevens can be traced to 2004, when Moody’s downgraded its bond ratings to near junk status because of operating deficits and rising debt.
Friday, 15 January 2010 00:00 Silvio Laccetti: Negative spotlight on Stevens Institute of Technology hurts school’s mission and New Jersey -
?http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/commentary/silvio-laccetti-negative-spotlight-on-stevens-institute-of-technology-hurts-schools-mission-and-new-jersey
25 Colleges With the Worst Professors in 2011 - CBS News - http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-50...s-in-2011/
You be the judge.
Shalom.
Saturday, 3 March 2012
Friday, 17 February 2012
UMNO fund-raising thru Israel's Ehud Barak? Really Mahadet?
After all the Anti-Israel rhetoric from UMNO and of course Maha-det, it is quite mind-boggling if this is genuine!!
Imagine allowing use of our Military bases in return for party funding!!
That too from Israel/Clinton Found!!
Yup- I'm quite aware that all sorts of things can be done using computers .... like "Avatar", but "someone" has to to answer to this- don't you think so?
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012
200,000 Dodgy Voters on Electoral roll- WTF, Mr. EC??
Posted on February 15, 2012
You are playing poker at a casino of international repute.
The stakes now are very, very high.
The player opposite you has won the last 12 games, all in a row.
There’s a sense of unease amongst the other players, that something is amiss.
There’s a demand for a fresh deck of cards.
Should the casino oblige, or insist on continuing with the deck that is now viewed with suspicion?
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I had tea yesterday with an elected rep.
Her office had checked the latest number of voters registered in her constituency, according to the EC records.
They found an error of some 6,000 additional names on the roll.
A written query was sent to the EC.
Until today, no response.
Malaysiakini reported yesterday that the audit of the electoral roll by Mimos disclosed a total of about 200,000 dubious voters.
How did Mimos discover these 200,000?
Well, according to the report, there were 820 cases where there were more than 100 voters registered as residing at the same address.
There were 1,259 cases where between 51-100 voters were registered at the same address.
Mimos detected another 3,254 cases where there were between 21-50 voters allegedly residing in the same place.
Mimos also found 6,002 cases involving between 11 – 20 voters all sharing the same address.
These 200,000 ‘dubious voters’ stuck out like sore thumbs because of the seeming implausibility that so many might be residing at one address.
Put another way, this cheating was uncovered because the perpetrators were either too lazy or too stupid to take the trouble, so as to cover their tracks, to allocate to these 200,o00 ‘dubious voters’ different residential addresses.
Had this been done, would Mimos’s audit have detected the 200,000?
And if Mimos would not have, can Mimos then categorically confirm now that there may not be even more ‘dubious voters’ than the 200,000 now found, who may have gone undetected because they have not been lumped together with 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 other dubious voters?
With this latest revelation, are we, the non-dubious voters, not entitled to a new, ‘dubious voter’ – free electoral roll, before we go to the next polls?
PSC?
Bersih 2.0 Steering Committee?
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Target: Lim Guan Eng
Found this on Fb just now ...
Target: Lim Guan Eng
— Whistleblower 57
The Malaysian Insider
Feb 14, 2012
FEB 14 — This is some friendly advice to Lim Guan Eng.
Watch your back. Team Najib have identified you as a main target, a real problem for them in the coming general elections.
In the power circles in Putrajaya, Lim Guan Eng is a problem, not only in Penang but in urban areas and even in East Malaysia where the feedback is that the Penang CM is popular.
So the strategists in Umno have decided that Lim must be kept busy fending off attacks. He must be kept off balance and so worried that he will not leave Penang to campaign for Pakatan Rakyat.
Aiding and abetting Umno in this task are some turncoats in DAP and PKR and Chinese businessmen. They have been promised a big payoff.
Guan Eng, you can expect your name to be dragged in the mud just like Anwar Ibrahim’s.
The only difference is that the administration will not use the mainstream media because they know that you will sue. They are going to employ the Umno bloggers to destroy you.
If you have skeletons in the closet, you are in trouble. If you don’t have, they will make it up.
This so-called expose on the Bayan Mutiara land deal should be see in this light. I don’t expect Rahman Dahlan to take up your dare and challenge you that the land was sold through open tender. The last thing he wants is for you to show him up to be what he is.
He and other Umno politicians just want to distract you and tar your image.