{"id":12,"date":"2015-02-19T15:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=12"},"modified":"2015-02-19T15:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:10:27","slug":"convicted-malaysian-cop-sirul-azhar-umar-breaks-silence-about-death-of-model-altantuya-shaariibuu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Convicted Malaysian cop Sirul Azhar Umar breaks silence about death of model Altantuya Shaariibuu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"model\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model-265x300.jpg 265w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a>A Malaysian police commander sentenced to hang in Kuala Lumpur has broken his silence from Sydney&#8217;s Villawood detention centre, saying he was ordered to kill a Mongolian socialite at the centre of high-level corruption allegations in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Sirul Azhar Umar said he was acting under orders when he twice shot glamorous 28-year-old translator Altantuya Shaariibuu in the head as she begged for the life of her unborn child and then wrapped her body with military explosives and blew her up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was under orders. The important people with motive are still free,&#8221; Sirul, a former bodyguard of Malaysia&#8217;s prime minister Najib Razak, told the <i>Malaysiakini<\/i> news portal by telephone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adspot-300x250-pos3\" class=\"ad \"><small>Advertisement<\/small><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It is not like I do not love the police (force) or the country, but I acted under orders,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sirul told <i>Malaysiakini<\/i> he has been negotiating a tell-all interview with Australian television stations where he is considering revealing why he and police colleague Azilah Hadri killed Ms Shaariibuu in a jungle patch on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t decided (on whether) to do the interview,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Allegations have simmered for eight years that Ms Shaariibuu was murdered to keep her quiet about purported kick-backs to high-level Malaysian officials over the US$2 billion purchase of two French and Spanish-built Scorpene submarines when Mr Najib was defence minister.<\/p>\n<p>Continue read: http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/convicted-malaysian-cop-sirul-azhar-umar-breaks-silence-about-death-of-model-altantuya-shaariibuu-20150218-13hmhm.html<\/p>\n<p>Source: SMH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Malaysian police commander sentenced to hang in Kuala Lumpur has broken his silence from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[5,9,33],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model.jpg",300,340,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model-265x300.jpg",265,300,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model.jpg",300,340,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model.jpg",300,340,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model.jpg",300,340,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model.jpg",300,340,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model.jpg",300,340,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model.jpg",300,340,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/model.jpg",278,315,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}