FMT opens with Libèration interview
Free Malaysia Today went live on Monday featuring an interview with Arnaud Dubus, the Bangkok-based Southeast Asia correspondent of Libèration who wrote a detailed account of the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case in March.
‣ Un cadavre très dérangeant — Libération
‣ English and Bahasa versions at Din Merican’s blog Will we ever know who killed Altantuya Shaaribuu and who authorised use of C4?
In the interview, Dubus says “the trail (linking Najib Tun Razak to Altantuya) has gone cold” because a photograph that purportedly shows Altantuya, Najib and defence analyst Abdul Razak Baginda at dinner in Paris has disappeared after being handed over to Malaysian police by Altantuya’s father. ‣ Interview Pic Linking Najib to Altantuya “Missing” ‣ Lead story Cops have photo of Najib with Altantuya
He also says her father Shaariibuu Setev was naive to have handed over the photograph and a dossier of documents, without keeping a copy for himself, to the Mongolian honorary consul in Malaysia to be taken to the Malaysian police for their investigation into her murder.
Raja Petra Kamarudin wrote about this point as well in February and last month:
