Former police officer Sirul Azhar Umar told Al-Jazeera in the 101 East programme that he received RM1mil from unnamed sources for his silence on the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder during his detention in Australia.
He said a prominent politically-linked lawyer and a top Cabinet leader were involved in the payment.
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00:00 Former Malaysian police officer Sirul Azhar Umar told Al Jazeera in an interview that
00:08 he received RM1 million from unnamed sources for his silence on the murder of Altantuya
00:15 Sharibu during his detention in Australia.
00:19 Sirul said a lawyer and a prominent politician were involved in the payment and he was made
00:24 a scapegoat in a political game.
00:27 He said many people in Malaysia wanted to know who gave the order to kill a Mongolian
00:32 woman but he added that he could not reveal the identity of the person.
00:37 However he said the order to kill was made by a prominent politician.
00:42 Sirul had been detained by Australian immigration authorities since January 2015.
00:49 He was finally released earlier this month after the Australian High Court ruled that
00:53 his indefinite immigration detention was unlawful.
00:58 He said he would be in danger if he returned to Malaysia and added that he wanted to build
01:03 a new life with his child in Australia.
01:06 He hoped that the community in Australia will give him a second chance.
01:11 Altantuya was abducted and murdered in Sialam in October 2006 and her remains blown up with
01:18 military-grade explosives.
01:21 Sirul and another bodyguard of a former Prime Minister Datuk Srim Najib Razak, Azila Hadri,
01:27 were convicted of the murder in 2009.
01:30 The Court of Appeal overturned the conviction in 2013 and ordered their release.
01:36 However the Federal Court upheld the conviction and reinstated the death penalty but during
01:41 the prosecution's appeal, Sirul fled to Australia.
01:44 Sirul was released on January 20, 2014.
01:45 He was released on January 20, 2014.
01:45 [END]