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Police lied, threatened, says

Malaysian police fabricated statements and threatened a fellow officer whose car took away a Mongolian woman before her murder, the officer told court yesterday.
Police Lance Corporal Rohaniza Roslan, 28, made the allegations at the trial of Abdul Razak Baginda, 47, a political analyst charged with abetting Altantuya Shaariibuu’s murder in October last year.
Prosecutors say Abdul Razak planned Altantuya’s killing and ordered two police officers — members of a special unit charged with protecting the country’s leaders — to carry it out.
All three face the death penalty if found guilty.
Rohaniza has testified that for nine years she had been the girlfriend of accused police officer Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri. She said she drove Azilah in her red Proton car to Abdul Razak’s house last October 19, the night Altantuya was taken away in the car never to be seen again.
But the prosecution said yesterday that Rohaniza’s court testimony about what happened after they left the house differed from what she had earlier told police investigators.
“I was under tremendous pressure. I said something but something else was recorded” by investigators, she told Judge Mohamed Zaki Mohamed Yasin.
“They wrote things I never said,” said Rohaniza, who testified in her police uniform, with tears in her eyes.
“While I was remanded they tortured me,” she said, referring to threats that she would be investigated for murder.
Rohaniza also said she received an anonymous telephone call from a man who said she would be shot if she became a witness in the case.
She has testified that she left Abdul Razak’s house in her car along with Azilah and a “Chinese woman”, whom she identified from a photograph as being Altantuya.
Rohaniza testified that they followed a four-wheel drive vehicle, driven by a man with a cap, to Kuala Lumpur police headquarters. There, Azilah escorted Altantuya to the other vehicle which then drove off while he went inside to his office, she said.
The prosecution said she gave a different version in a November 16 statement recorded by police. In that statement, she said Azilah escorted Altantuya to the other vehicle and got inside with her.
Judge Zaki called it “a huge difference”.
“I want to maintain that Azilah did not enter the car,” Rohaniza responded.
“I was kept isolated in a hotel room... before giving the statement. I was under tremendous pressure. They pressured me, saying I could not go home and would be locked up again.”
Prosecutors noted another discrepancy. In court Rohaniza testified that when she later picked Azilah up at his office around midnight on October 19, she only questioned why he was late, and did not ask about the “Chinese woman”. He told her he was out with a friend, she testified.
In the statement given to investigators, she said she asked Azilah three times where the woman was.
“I thought that something might have happened,” she said in the statement.
Rohaniza earlier wept in court when asked to identify Azilah.
She testified they had been out for dinner together when he received a phone call and they left for Abdul Razak’s house.
Abdul Razak is close to Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak, who has vehemently denied any involvement in the case seen by observers as a test of Malaysia’s judicial and political integrity.
Prosecutors say Altantuya was killed by “probable blast-related” injuries in a clearing in Shah Alam district, southwest of Kuala Lumpur, after she was driven away from outside Abdul Razak’s house.
 

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