By FMT staff
FULL REPORT KUALA LUMPUR: The police will investigate sacked PKR MP Zulkifli Noordin's claim that he was asked to link the prime minister and his wife to the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shariibuu.
"If anything comes out (based on the investigations)... we will pursue additional investigations," Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.
Yesterday, Zulkifli ressurected the Altantuya saga in Parliament when he claimed that a 'third party' had offered him a large sum of money to implicate Najib Tun Razak and Rosmah Mansor in the case.
According to the Kulim-Bandar Baru MP, the offer was made when he was the defence counsel for one of the the accused, police officer Azilah Hadri.
The spotlight fell on Najib, when a close friend of the premier's Abdul Razak Baginda was charged with abetting Azilah, and another special operations officer Sirul Azhar.
Abdul Razak was later acquitted, but the two policemen were handed the death sentence.
Altantuya's case, which made international headlines and soured diplomatic relations between Malaysia and Mongolia, continues to haunt the prime minister and never fails to surface during elections.
Certain quarters claim that there were behind-the-scenes political manouvreing to hush-up the matter, but this has been dismissed by the authorities.
Najib has repeatedly denied having any links to the case, and even swore his innonce on the Quran.
Zulkifli meanwhile said there was no criminal element in his statement yesterday, adding that he was merely elaborating on the culture of slander practised by some politicians.
“However it is the job of the police to investigate if they have a police report. I will assist in the investigation if there is a need," the lawyer told reporters in Parliament.
Meanwhile, Musa remained tightlipped about the allegation that he had committed perjury during Anwar Ibrahim's trial in 1998.
"I don't want to comment. Let the AG (Attorney-General) deal with it... the case happened a long time ago,” he said.
Yesterday, PKR vice-president R Sivarasa had filed a police report on the matter.
The Subang MP revealed that when Musa, who was spearheading the investigations then, took the stand, he told the court that he had a law degree when in actual fact, he possesed a diploma.
In another trial involving a senior police officer later, Musa testified that he has a diploma.
In view of this, Sivarasa called on the police to launch an investigation without fear or favour since it is an offence to provide false evidence.
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