Namiraa: Abdul Razak Baginda threatened to kill us

Day 6
SHAH ALAM (June 25, 2007): Namiraa Gerelmaa, the third witness in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder trial, told the High Court here today that she, her cousin (Altantuya) and their friend Gal Ochir Uuriintuya lodged apolice report on Oct 19 because Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda threatened to kill them.

Namiraa, 23, who accompanied Altantuya to Malaysia to look for the political analyst, said the threatening message was related to them by Abdul Razak’s private investigator P. Balasubramaniam and his assistant K.Suras Kumar.

"Suras Kumar and Balasubramaniam threatened to kill us, to throw us out of the window. Every night, around 3am to 5am, Suras came to the hotel and forcefully knocked on the door to enter our room," she said during theexamination-in-chief by Deputy Public Prosecutor Manoj Kurup, Bernama reported today.

Today was Namiraa’s second day to be called to the witness stand.

Namiraa, who spoke in Mongolian and translated into English by Mongolian interpreter Engkhjargal Tsetsgee, was the first called to the stand last Friday (June 22).

Chief Insp Azilah Hadri, 30, and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, 35, from the police Special Action Squad are charged with murdering Altantuya, 28, in a location between lots 12843 and 16735, Mukim Bukit Raja, here between 10pm on Oct 19 and 1am on Oct 20. Abdul Razak, 46, is charged with abetting them between 9.54am on Oct 18 and 9.45am the following day in the Federal Territory of KualaLumpur.