Fishier than fish

The Altantuya murder case gets fishier and fishier.

Received an email from Susan my activist friend who's now based in Bangkok.

Dear Friends,

Here's more info. on Altantuya Sh. It seems "a certain newspaper" paid the Mongolian newspaper to whip up negative stories on this unfortunate woman. And that her trip to Malaysia was to ask Baginda to settle payment for her business services.

Please go to more info on her story HERE.


Then another email.

(Dec 14, Bangkok) I received an alert late last night.

The lawyer, Mr. Budragchaa Bayar, who is conducting the watching brief for Ms. Altantuya Shariibuu's murder case, on behalf of her family and NGOs, found himself in a lurch in Kuala Lumpur. The court case is supposed to be mentioned in Shah Alam this morning of Dec 14.

He was supposed to be met by Consul officials at the airport, but upon arrival, found no one there. However, two journalists from Mongolia, were received instead. Fishy, isn't it, when he was assured by officials in Mongolia that he would be duly taken care of when he is in KL?

I panicked a little. I felt something was amissed. With Mongolians being blown up with C4 explosives, I feared for Mr. Bayar's safety.

I quickly shot an email to the usual suspects: Ms. Elizabeth Wong , Mr. Yap Swee Seng and Mr. Chang Lih Kang, from SUARAM, asking for their help in this mighty hour at night.

These are the times I wished I were back home in Malaysia.

But thank God, some human rights activists don't sleep.

I caught Ms. Elizabeth online, and we quickly exchanged information. She immediately offered to call Mr. Bayar, and found out that he was fine. See more details of this in her blog.

Now, I am quite mad. The poor man was supposed to be brief by the Consul about the court case tomorrow. But that did'nt happen at all, because the Consul (or his staff) was missing-in-action.

Mr. Bayar was not informed about which court to go to, and what time. He didn't even know that tomorrow's session was merely procedural, just a mention, to set the actual trial dates.

So, if it had not been for Elizabeth's intervention, who knows what might happen to another Mongolian, walking down the street of KL.

With all the mystery surrounding this crime, it's a perfect make-up for an X-File series!

The fish is getting rotten and you can smell it from a mile.