Thursday, April 14, 2011

'I always knew the truth will prevail': Najib


Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak said today he is thankful that the truth over allegations linking him and his wife to the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu had finally been revealed.

"I always knew the truth will prevail, and I am thankful this has happened," he said, when asked to comment on Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin's retraction of his allegations in a statutory declaration in 2008, linking Najib and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor to the Mongolian woman's death.



“I've always considered the matter closed. It was only an issue in the realm of the court of public opinion,” the prime minister said after launching the Seri Malaysia hotel here.

In an interview over TV3 last night, Raja Petra said that he had been pressured and influenced to carry the news by some people who did not want Najib to become the prime minister after Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi stepped down.

Stressing that he himself had not accused Najib or Rosmah of being involved Altantuya's murder, Raja Petra said his statutory statement made in 2008 stated he had been reliably informed that Rosmah had been present at the crime scene on Oct 19, 2006 when Altantuya was killed.

“I no longer accept the story. I think it's quite impossible. It can't be that the prime minister's wife would want to go to such a place; it's a jungle ... I'm imagining, climbing up the hill, going into the jungle at night, at midnight, I think it's quite impossible,” he said in an interview with TV3 group editor Datuk Ashraf Abdullah in Perth, Australia, recently.



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