Ms Uuriintuya Gal-Orchir, 30, friend of Altantuya Shaariibuu
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An unexpected twist yesterday stirred excitement in a Malaysian court when the friend of a murdered Mongolian interpreter claimed that their entry into Malaysia had mysteriously vanished from official records.
Ms Uuriintuya Gal-Orchir, 30, said she was told by officials that there was no record that she, slain Mongolian interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu and their friend Namiraa Gerelmaa entered the country on Oct 8 last year.
Ms Uuriintuya said two policemen questioned her for two hours on whether she entered Malaysia illegally, before allowing her to leave.
Lead prosecutor Tun Abdul Majid Tun Hamzah and the defence lawyers protested repeatedly that this was irrelevant to the trial.
They asked for this part of her testimony to be deleted from court records but lawyer Karpal Singh, who is monitoring the trial for the Mongolian family and government, insisted it remain on record.
Judge Mohd Zaki Md Yasin allowed it to stay on record eventually.
Meanwhile, Ms Uuriintuya also identified a silver watch, earrings and a ring worn by Ms Altantuya on the day she went missing, and was allegedly killed.
She said Ms Altantuya had told her the diamond ring was a present from her
boyfriend, and she assumed that Ms Altantuya meant Abdul Razak.
