SHAH ALAM: Investigating officer ASP Tonny Lunggan told the High Court here yesterday he received several memos bearing the Hotel Malaya logo written by Mongolian Altantuya a week after the trial began.

He said Altantuya???s father Shaariibuu Setev gave away the memos on June 25 last year outside the courtroom.

In the memos, Altantuya wrote she had been harassed and threatened with murder by Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda who is now on trial for abetting two policemen in killing her. Tonny said Setev told him that he received the memos from Burmaa Oyunchimeg or Amy who found them in Altantuya???s bag.

A day after receiving the memos, Tonny handed them over to the Chemistry Department for analysis.

On Sept 26 last year, chemist Wong Kong Yong testified that the handwritings on three memos, an envelope and a note bearing the Hotel Malaya logo were of the same person.

Before that, Burmaa said the handwritings on the memos were her cousin Altantuya???s.

Tonny said he also sent five other memos to Wong after receiving them from DSP Lim Meng Seah for analysis.

In previous proceedings, Lim said the memos written by Altantuya for Razak contained threats.

During the examination-in-chief by Deputy Public Prosecutor Manoj Kurup, Tonny also said he received various other exhibits including Touch N??? Go cards belonging to Cpl Sirul Azhar Umar and L/Cpl Rohaniza Roslan, a tape recording from Hotel Malaya and a photograph of Sirul???s car taken at a toll plaza.

He said that to see Sirul???s car passing through the toll plaza, he took two days because the tools used by CyberSecurity Malaysia were incompatible with the system used at the toll plaza.

Tonny said the tape could only be analysed after the toll plaza operator, Plus, loaned their equipment.

He also said that on May 24 last year, he and Crime Scene Investigation unit head Supt Amidon Anan went to Hotel Malaya to play three tape recordings but only one was analysed because it contained the images of Sirul and C/Insp Azilah Hadri while the rest involved the victim.

Azilah, 32, and Sirul, 37, of the police???s Special Action Unit, are charged with murdering Altantuya, 28, in October 2006 in Bukit Raja. They and Razak, 48, are liable to the death sentence if convicted.

The trial entered its 108th day yesterday before Justice Datuk Mohd Zaki Md Yasin continues on Monday next week.

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