Najib to meet Zul Noordin over Altantuya claim
Datuk Seri Najib Razak is keen to meet Kulim Bandar Baru MP Zulkifli Noordin who claimed he was instructed to link the prime minister and his wife to the sensational Altantuya Shaariibuu murder.
Zulkifli made the claim in his first address to Parliament last Wednesday as an independent — weeks after being sacked from PKR for indiscipline. But he has refused to say if his former party had ordered him to do so.
“I will gladly meet Zul Noordin. I want to find out the truth. The truth will come out soon,” Najib told reporters after chairing an Umno supreme council meeting at the party headquarters here.
Najib and his wife have denied all links to the murder but remain clouded by allegations as the two elite policemen convicted of Altantuya’s murder were once part of their security detail. A Najib associate, political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, was acquitted of all charges linked to the murder.
Zulkifli had alleged that he was offered “a reward that could shake someone’s faith” by a third party to draft a statutory declaration to implicate Najib and Rosmah, saying the offer was made in the course of the trial where he was the counsel for Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri, one of the three accused in the murder.
Though he did not reveal who the third party was, speculation is rife that the accusation was targeted towards the top leadership of his former party.
