SHAH ALAM: Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri told the High Court here that higher-ranking police officer DSP Musa Safri had asked him to help political analyst Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda.

Musa gave him Razak’s handphone number and told him to contact Razak to get details of the problem and the assistance he required, he said.

“DSP Musa told me that his friend, namely Encik Razak, had a problem because someone had threatened him.

“DSP Musa asked me to see Encik Razak to know more about Encik Razak’s problem and introduced me to DSP Idris Abdul Karim. DSP Musa himself did not know Encik Razak’s actual problem,” said Azilah on the first day of his defence yesterday.

Azilah, 32, and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, 36, of the police’s Special Action Unit (UTK) are accused of murdering Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu, 28, in Mukim Bukit Raja between 10pm on Oct 19, 2006 and 1am the next day.

On Oct 31 last year, the court acquitted and discharged Razak, 48, of abetting them in Kuala Lumpur between 9.54am on Oct 18, 2006 and 9.45pm the following day, without calling him to enter defence.

During the examination by lawyer Datuk Hazman Ahmad, Azilah said he contacted Razak on Oct 18, 2006 on his handphone and introduced himself and told him the purpose of the call.

Razak had given him his office address and told him to go there, he said.

In the meeting with Razak at the office, Razak looked stressed and told him about a threat he had received from a Chinese woman and a Chinese man.

“Encik Razak said a Chinese man and a Chinese woman had demanded money but Encik Razak did not say; what was the reason, Encik Razak did not say.

“Encik Razak said he did not want to submit to the demand of the Chinese man and the Chinese woman.

“Encik Razak let me listen to a voicemail from Encik Razak’s phone. I heard the voice of a Chinese man with a Chinese dialect say ‘saya kasi pecah lu punya muka’ (I will break your face),” he said.

He said Razak also told him that because of the threat, he had hired a security guard to guard his house and engaged a private investigator.

Razak also told him that the Chinese man and Chinese woman had also created a disturbance in front of his house in Bukit Damansara.

After listening to Razak’s story, Azilah said, he suggested to Razak to lodge a police report so that the police could take proper action but Razak refused to do so.

He said Razak had asked him to advise the Chinese man and Chinese woman not to create disturbance in front of his house and conduct patrols around his house.

“I told Encik Razak if Encik Razak wanted an MPV to patrol in Encik Razak’s house area, I could ask a friend namely DSP Idris to get a police box in front of Encik Razak’s house as a check point for the police on patrol.

“Because to get the service of police personnel to patrol Encik Razak’s house area will take a long time, Encik Razak had asked me to patrol his house area and asked me to go to Hotel Malaya to advise the Chinese woman because according to Encik Razak, the Chinese woman stayed at Hotel Malaya room 512,” he said.

Azilah said Razak had supplied him his house address in Bukit Damansara, the Hotel Malaya address and the Chinese woman’s handphone number.

After returning from Razak’s office, Azilah said, he met Sirul and told him about his meeting with Razak.

“I told Sirul that earlier I met Encik Razak who was DSP Musa’s friend because Encik Razak had a problem of being threatened by a Chinese man and Chinese woman and Encik Razak had sought help to advise them and patrol Encik Razak’s house area.

“Sirul and I went to Encik Razak house address because I had told Sirul if I could not help Encik Razak if I had other assignment, I could ask Sirul to send help to Encik Razak,” he said.

After Razak’s house, Azilah said, he and Sirul went to Hotel Malaya in Kuala Lumpur to see the Chinese woman mentioned by Razak.

“We arrived at room 512. I did not dare knock the door fearing a wrong person and afraid of disturbing the privacy of the room occupant,” he said.

The hearing before Justice Datuk Mohd Zaki Md Yassin continued in the afternoon.

— Bernama