A day after Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu was blown up, Abdul Razak continued to receive threatening messages that had begun before her disappearance. The threats, sent to his mobile phone, frightened him so badly that he turned to the private investigator he had paid to settle matters with Ms Altantuya.
The private investigator, Mr Balasubramaniam Perumal, testified that the harassment continued even after her horrific death allegedly at the hands of two policemen who were said to be acting on Abdul Razak's instructions.
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As a result, Mr Balasubramaniam said, the political analyst rehired him to protect himself from the Mongolian woman's family.
Mr Balasubramaniam said that the day after Ms Altantuya was last seen alive, Abdul Razak made the final payment of RM2,000 (S$880) for his services. But the very next day, he was called into action again.
This time, he told the packed court yesterday, it was because "Amy", a relative of Ms Altantuya, had sent the political analyst a threatening text message.
Abdul Razak immediately forwarded the message to Mr Balasubramaniam's number.
The contents of the SMS were not read out in court, but Maxis, a Malaysian mobile phone company, revealed that a message, sent from a foreign number to Mr Balasubramaniam's phone on Oct 21 last year, read: "You sick xxxxx listen to me carefull...I'm gonna call his wife...already report to Mongolian consulate in malay...u chicken shits are in big problem...I'll do my best I promise."
It was not only "Amy" who kept up the pressure on Abdul Razak, Mr Balasubramaniam said. Abdul Razak, he said, had called him for help after 11pm on Oct 20 last year because Ms Uuriintuya Gal-Orchir and Ms Namiraa Gerelmaa, friends who had accompanied Ms Altantuya to Malaysia, were outside his house.
They were shouting and demanding to see Ms Altantuya, as they believed she was being held there. Mr Balasubramaniam rushed to the house after calling the police.
Razak Baginda's wife Mazlinda Makhzan (2nd frm left) , his daughter Rowena Abdul Razak (3rd frm left) and his brother Abdul Rani (in blue shirt), as well as other relatives and friends were seen waving to him on Wed.
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When the police arrived, he told them that he believed Ms Altantuya had been arrested the night before.
She had allegedly been taken away by the two policemen who are now charged with blowing her up with explosives in a jungle clearing near Shah Alam. The private detective said that he only learnt of Ms Altantuya's death on
Nov 1 last year when he was called to an identification parade at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters.
There, he was asked to pick out the man he had seen driving her away from Abdul Razak's house on Oct 19 last year, the last time she was seen alive.
Mr Balasubramaniam identified Azilah Hadri, 30, a policeman from the Special Action Forces, from the line-up as the man who took Ms Altantuya away.
