The absence of comprehensive details in the call and text message transaction data of political analyst Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda was questioned by his lawyer today.
Former political analyst Abdul Razak (picture here) became angry, so much so that he needed relatives to calm him down.
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Counsel Wong Kian Kheong said that from the two telephone lines used by his client, there were 109 incoming calls and text messages on the day Altantuya Shaariibuu was murdered but the prosecution failed to prove another 83 transactions with regard to the identities of the owners and users.
Besides, there were over 100 outgoing calls and text messages which could not be identified without any explanation from the prosecution, he said.
Asked by High Court Judge Datuk Mohd Zaki Md Yasin how relevant was the prosecution to state all users of the numbers involved, Wong said: “It was to show gaps between one call with another and there was no explanation on the link between the calls.
He also argued that the prosecution had only produced evidence that DSP Musa Safri, private detective P. Balasubramaniam and first accused C/Insp Azilah Hadri had been in communcation with each other within a period shortly before the incident without explaining who were the other callers.
Wong who was addressing the court for the second time at the end of the prosecution case, said that from all call and text message transactions between Razak and Azilah, none could prove prima facie case on the abetment charge.
He also argued that within 36 hours, it was impossible for Razak to abet in the murder and in fact, there was no evidence produced by the prosecution that when the abetment was committed Razak was in Kuala Lumpur besides the statement by Razak’s secretary, Siti Aishah Mohd Azlan, who had said Azilah had met Razak at Bangunan Getah Azli, Jalan Ampang, aT 9am on Oct 18, 2006.
Wong later asked the court to free Razak without calling him to enter defence.
Azilah, 32, and Cpl Sirul Azhar Umar, 36, of the police’s Special Action Unit were charged with murdering the 28-year-old Mongolian woman between Lot 12843 and Lot 16735 in Mukim Bukit Raja between 10pm on Oct 19, 2006 and 1am the following day.
Razak, 48, was charged with abetting them at his office in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 18, 2006.
The trial before judge Zaki will continue on Monday with Azilah’s lawyer, J. Kuldeep Kumar, making his submission. Kuldeep was supposed to address the court today but had applied for a postponement because he had stomach ache.
Earlier, Wong questioned the application by Deputy Public Prosecutor Tun Abdul Majid Tun Hamzah to defer the hearing for a week after all defence lawyers had finished making their submissions.
Since the start of the trial last year, Wong has been asking the court to speed up the case and objected to any application for postponement, saying that it was in his client’s interest and instruction.
Tun Majid said today that Wong should be fair and give a chance to the prosecution because before this, the prosecution had been tolerant when the defence was applying for time to prepare their submissions.
Razak was not the only one in the dock, he said.
Razak looked as though he was dissatisfied and angry with something since the start of today’s proceedings to the extent of having his family members to approach and calm him down.
