Razak made 19 calls, sent 14 SMSes to Azilah

Altantuya murder trial:



CyberSecurity Malaysia digital forensic head Aswami Fadillah Mohd Ariffin confirmed the phone numbers belonged to the three accused and several other individuals



New Straits Times



Political analyst Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda made 19 calls and sent 14 SMSes to Chief Insp Azilah Hadri from the night Altantuya Shaaribuu was allegedly murdered on Oct 19 until Oct 30 last year.



Azilah, meanwhile, contacted Razak by phone seven times within the same period.



This information was given in the High Court here by Goh Peng Chew, 38, an engineer from Maxis, in the trial of the murder of the Mongolian woman which entered its 60th day yesterday.



Azilah, 31, and another operative of the police Special Action Unit -- 36-year-old Cpl Sirul Azhar Umar -- are alleged to have murdered Altantuya in a jungle in Bukit Raja between 10pm on Oct 19 last year and 1am the following day.



Razak, 47, is charged with abetting them.



Goh said that on Oct 21, 2006, Razak contacted Azilah more than 10 times and they talked for about four minutes between 1.29am and 1.47am.



During the examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor Noorin Badaruddin, Goh, who is the 55th prosecution witness, said he did not know whose phone numbers he had printed.



In previous proceedings, however, CyberSecurity Malaysia digital forensic head Aswami Fadillah Mohd Ariffin, 36, had confirmed that the phone numbers belonged to the three accused and several other individuals.



Goh said that on the night Altantuya was allegedly murdered, the record showed that Azilah called Razak and they talked for about two minutes. Razak also sent an SMS to Azilah at 7.01pm, he added.



He said Razak also sent two SMSes to Azilah on Nov 7, 2006, although on that day, according to witnesses' testimonies, Azilah was already under police custody and being taken to the murder scene.



Goh added that on Oct 9 last year, Altantuya sent three SMSes to Razak and from Oct 14, 2006, Azilah and Razak communicated with each other.



According to the record of transactions on Oct 18, 2005, Goh said Azilah contacted Razak repeatedly while Razak sent five SMSes and made 11 phone calls.



Meanwhile, the 54th prosecution witness -- CyberSecurity Malaysia digital forensic analyst Razana Md Salleh -- said the information and data in the SIM card of a handphone was impossible to be changed by any computer system.



The trial before judge Datuk Mohd Zaki Md Yasin continues on Monday. -- Bernama