by Theleaders | August 28, 2025 3:58 pm
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 28 — The father of murdered Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu is seeking court orders to compel Malaysian police to fully investigate claims that her 2006 murder was carried out on the orders of senior government officials.
Shaariibuu Setev’s legal challenge centres on a statutory declaration made by former police commando Azilah Hadri, who claimed in court documents that he was ordered by then-Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to kill and dispose of Altantuya.
Najib has consistently denied these allegations.
Lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo today confirmed that she has filed a judicial review application on behalf of Altantuya’s father.
“We have been instructed by our client, Dr Shaariibuu Setev, to file an application for judicial review, for orders to, among others, compel authorities to investigate or complete investigations into the contents of Azilah Hadri’s additional affidavit dated 24th September, 2024 containing statutory declaration dated 17th October, 2019,” she said in a brief statement.
The lawsuit was filed at the High Court here on August 25, and names the inspector-general of police (IGP), the director of the police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the Royal Malaysia Police, the attorney general, and the government of Malaysia as respondents.
Key demands
Shaariibuu is seeking several specific court orders, including:
As Shaariibuu has filed this case as a judicial review application, he will need to first get the High Court’s leave or permission for his case to proceed to be heard.
Shaariibuu’s court case is scheduled to appear on September 29 before High Court judge Datuk Aliza Sulaiman.
Here’s why Altantuya’s father is seeking these court orders
In 2015, the Federal Court ruled that Azilah and his fellow former police commando Sirul Azhar Umar were guilty of Altantuya’s 2006 murder, with both of them sentenced to death.
In December 2019, Azilah gave the Federal Court his October 2019 statutory declaration, where he claimed to have received orders to carry out a “covert operation” to kill Altantuya and dispose of her body. This was part of his unsuccessful court bid[1] to review his conviction and death sentence.
In October 2024, the Federal Court allowed Azilah’s application under new laws to review his mandatory death sentence, and replaced it with 40 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane.
The Federal Court’s 2024 decision was based partly on Azilah’s September 2024 additional affidavit, which had included his entire October 2019 statutory declaration.
In court papers for his lawsuit filed on Monday, Altantuya’s father said the attorney general had in 2019 disputed Azilah’s claims in the statutory declaration, but the attorney general in the 2024 case did not dispute the same claims in Azilah’s additional affidavit.
Altantuya’s father said he had via his lawyers written multiple letters to Malaysian authorities to ask about investigations into Azilah’s claims, including to the home minister (on October 23, 2024), attorney general (March 20 this year), and the IGP (this April 17).
Altantuya’s father said the police’s CID director on May 14 sent an email to say the CID had in 2019 already investigated Azilah’s claims, but that the email did not give more information.
Altantuya’s father said he then wrote on May 14 to the CID director to ask for the results of the 2019 investigation on Azilah’s claims, and to ask for the current status of the investigation if it is still ongoing.
Since there has been no response to his May 14 letter, Altantuya’s father filed this court case to challenge the respondents’ refusal or failure to inform him of both the 2019 investigation outcome and the status of the latest investigation.
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