The phone number 012-9042042, said to have been used by Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda to contact C/Insp Azilah Hadri, was registered under the name of TV3 newscaster Izwan Azir Saleh.
Faceless suspects, Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar and chief inspector Azilah Hadri are often seen covering their faces on the way to court. The two accused officers in the Mongolian murder case are becoming Malaysia's most famous undercover cops. |
This was revealed by Maxis administrative executive in the security
division Regina a/p Arokiam on the 61st day of trial for the murder of
Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu today.
Azilah, 31 and another operative of the police’s Special Action Unit,
Cpl Sirul Azhar Umar, 36, are alleged to have committed the murder in a
jungle in Bukit Raja between 10pm on Oct 19 and 1am the following day.
Razak, a 47-year-old political analyst, is charged with abetting them.
Regina, 34, said 012-9042042 was a prepaid number and she obtained details of the owner from the company’s system.
In previous proceedings, Maxis chief engineer in the service, information and billing division Goh Peng Chew said the same number was used by Razak to contact Azilah from Oct 18 to 21, 2006.
Regina, who is the 56th prosecution witness, also said that the phone number 012-2409311, said to have been used by Razak’s private eye, P.
Balasubramaniam, was registered under the name of Looi Kwee Pin.
Earlier, she told the court that the police had asked her to find out the owners of 10 phone lines and she discovered that not all of them were postpaid and not all of them were registered.
She also said Razak had three postpaid lines.
Meanwhile, earlier in the proceeding today, Goh, 38, said that according to Maxis’ log summary, Altantuya made 26 phone calls and sent five SMS to Razak from Oct 9 (the day she was said to have arrived in Malaysia) until she was reported missing on Oct 19.
Altantuya’s last call to Razak was at 5.57pm on Oct 19 while the duration was about two minutes, he said. He added that the longest duration of calls between Altantuya and Razak was five minutes recorded on Oct 14.
The record also showed that Razak made 51 calls and sent 147 SMS to
Balasubramaniam from Oct 9 to Oct 31 while Balasubramaniam called Altantuya
eight times and sent her three SMS.
Altantuya also called Balasubramaniam 25 times and sent 24 SMS from Oct 13 until her disappearance.
The record also showed that Azilah and Sirul Azhar contacted each other on Oct 19 from 1.33pm to 9.47pm.
Asked by the Deputy Public Prosecutor Noorin Badaruddin, Goh said the log summary was not tempered with and he also agreed with Razak’s lawyer,
Wong Kian Kheong, that the record of calls did not necessarily mean the
receiver heard the caller.
The trial before High Court Judge Datuk Mohd Zaki Md Yasin continues tomorrow.
