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Former political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda says he has moved on from Altantuya Shariibuu's murder and allegations of corruption surrounding the Scorpene submarine deal, saying that he does not 'give a toss'. – EPA pic, November 23, 2017.
FORMER political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, who was charged with abetment in the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu and is now being investigated over the Scorpene submarine scandal, said in a radio interview that he has "moved on". "You know at this stage of my life, I don't really care. I don't really give a toss about all this, simply because it's in the hands of my lawyers," he told BFM in an interview to promote his newly established think-tank ICON Centre for Global Affairs. Razak was asked by radio host Melisa Idris to comment on the "court of public opinion" about him. "I know what I did and didn't do. Let me put it this way, I hope I can summarise this, even if I'm the first Malaysian to win a Nobel prize, 90% of the news item would be the murder case, the submarine deal.
"And the last sentence would be 'oh by the way, Razak just won the Nobel peace prize'. Even I stand on top of the mountain and shout this and that, it's not going to matter because people have made up their minds," he said. Razak was charged with abetting two police officers, Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, in the murder of Altantuya in 2006. He was acquitted while Azilah and Sirul were sentenced to death. In August, the French government announced that it has launched an investigation against Razak for "active and passive complicity in corruption" and "misappropriation of corporate assets", in relation to the sale of Scorpene submarines to Malaysia. "Honestly, about the public opinion, I don't really give a toss at this stage in my life. "I'm just someone who wants to move on with life. And if anybody wants to remind me of my past, by all means, but I will leave you behind and I will move forward. If the public wants to drag me back to my past, do your best, because I'm moving forward."
"There's been a lot of conjecture, rumours, speculation and we know that because there was a complaint and the system is such that when there is a complaint, the system goes into motion," Razak told BFM yesterday. "Being placed under formal investigation means that my lawyers will have full access to all the investigation papers. And we saw, at least when my lawyers saw the investigation papers, we knew, as we've known all along, that they have no evidence whatsoever," he said. The French inquiry is on alleged corruption in the purchase of the Scorpene submarines in 2002. Razak was an adviser to Prime Minister Najib Razak when the latter was defence minister between 2000 and 2008. Najib oversaw the deal, worth nearly |