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Why Altantuya’s murder continues to cast shadow over Malaysia
New developments in the civil suit initiated by the family of the murdered Mongolian model are a reminder of the lack of closure in one of the country’s darkest scandals.
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Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu was murdered in October 2006 and her body was blown up with military-grade explosives.
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In Malaysia’s long list of high-profile scandals, the gruesome 2006 killing of Mongolian model and translator Altantuya Shaariibuu by bodyguards of then Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak certainly stands out as among the nation’s most ignominious of recent times.
Few Malaysians will disagree that the case was the most sensational until the multibillion-dollar 1MDB embezzlement scandal came along and grabbed the spotlight with its sheer scale, international shame it brought to the country and 2018 felling of Najib as prime minister.
