Peter Dutton & Australian Border Force put VIllawood detainee Sirul Azhar in danger :Dutton,Serco ignored evidence of their error,intelligence failures
by Ganesh Sahathevan
The Australian reported on 3 November 2015:
However, as was reported on this blog in August this year access to Sirul Azhar at Villawood is being managed by a one Datuk Ganasan "Gunna"Narianasamy, who is said to represent the Malaysian Police, and/or the Malaysian Special Branch.
Dutton was made aware of Ganasan's interference at Villawood but chose to remain silent. We now know from The Australian that at best,Dutton and the Australian Border Force are acting with good intention but an incorrect assumption. In any case ,an agent of the Malaysian Government controls access to Sirul Azhar and he does with the cooperation of Serco, The Department of Immigration, and Dutton.It is a matter of public knowledge that the March visit referred to by The Australian was meant to secure Sirul's acquittal .That an opposition MP was involved should have made this fact clear,given that it is the Government led by PM Najib Razak that wants Sirul returned to be hanged for murder, a murder he says was carried out under the orders of Najib or someone in his inner circle.To refer to this as an intelligence failure is to give this debacle a veneer of credibility.This decision is plainly idiotic, unless of course, Dutton is assisting the Government of Malaysia by ensuring Sirul speaks to no one,and that whatever he knows remains suppressed.
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The Australian reported on 3 November 2015:
A visit from a delegation of Malaysian political figures has prompted a security crackdown on one of the country’s most well-known detainees, Sirul Azhar Umar, amid fears the former bodyguard to Malaysia’s political elite was being pressured to return home to face the death penalty.
The Australian understands the Australian Border Force, which is responsible for security inside detention centres, has determined that Umar is a high-risk detainee because of his involvement in what on some accounts is a murderous conspiracy among Malaysia’s top politicians and officials.
In March, a delegation comprising Umar’s mother, sister and at least one Malaysian opposition MP visited the former policeman inside Villawood detention centre. The visit was approved by Serco, the contractors responsible for running Australia’s detention centres.
The centre was at the time under the control of the Immigration Department.
Border Force officials found out about the visit after the fact and are understood to have become highly alarmed amid concerns Umar may be vulnerable to intimidation or coercion.
Officials don’t know the precise reason of the March visit, however they are concerned its purpose was to encourage Umar to return to Malaysia where he faces death by hanging.
However, as was reported on this blog in August this year access to Sirul Azhar at Villawood is being managed by a one Datuk Ganasan "Gunna"Narianasamy, who is said to represent the Malaysian Police, and/or the Malaysian Special Branch.
Dutton was made aware of Ganasan's interference at Villawood but chose to remain silent. We now know from The Australian that at best,Dutton and the Australian Border Force are acting with good intention but an incorrect assumption. In any case ,an agent of the Malaysian Government controls access to Sirul Azhar and he does with the cooperation of Serco, The Department of Immigration, and Dutton.It is a matter of public knowledge that the March visit referred to by The Australian was meant to secure Sirul's acquittal .That an opposition MP was involved should have made this fact clear,given that it is the Government led by PM Najib Razak that wants Sirul returned to be hanged for murder, a murder he says was carried out under the orders of Najib or someone in his inner circle.To refer to this as an intelligence failure is to give this debacle a veneer of credibility.This decision is plainly idiotic, unless of course, Dutton is assisting the Government of Malaysia by ensuring Sirul speaks to no one,and that whatever he knows remains suppressed.
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Malaysia visit fires fears for detainee Sirul Azhar Umar
THE AUSTRALIAN
NOVEMBER 3, 2015 12:00AM
Paul Maley
Sirul Azhar Umar has been held inside Sydney’s Villawood detention centre since January.
A visit from a delegation of Malaysian political figures has prompted a security crackdown on one of the country’s most well-known detainees, Sirul Azhar Umar, amid fears the former bodyguard to Malaysia’s political elite was being pressured to return home to face the death penalty.
The Australian understands the Australian Border Force, which is responsible for security inside detention centres, has determined that Umar is a high-risk detainee because of his involvement in what on some accounts is a murderous conspiracy among Malaysia’s top politicians and officials.
Additional security measures have been put in place around Umar, who was convicted of the 2006 murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu, reportedly the lover of Abdul Razak Baginda, a top aide to Malaysia’s then-defence minister Najib Razak, now the Prime Minister.
Umar has been held inside Sydney’s Villawood detention centre since January after he was picked up by Australian police acting on an Interpol arrest warrant issued by Malaysia.
His detention has created a conundrum for the Australian government, which will not deport foreign nationals who face the death penalty, raising the prospect of indefinite detention for Umar.
His case has since become one of the most intriguing tales to emerge from the murky world of Malaysian politics.
In 2009, the former commando was convicted of the murder of 28-year-old Shaariibuu, who worked as a translator on a billion-dollar defence deal, brokered by Mr Baginda.
At the time of the murder, Umar was working as a bodyguard to Mr Najib, Malaysia’s defence minister and deputy prime minister. Mr Najib denies any wrongdoing, or even ever meeting Shaariibuu.
Umar and his partner, Azilah Hadri, were members of the Royal Malaysian Police’s Special Action Squad, an elite unite within the Malaysian security services responsible for counter-terrorism. The two men, who were assigned to Mr Najib’s protection detail, are alleged to have shot and killed Shaariibuu before blowing up her body with C4, a military-grade explosive. Their guilty verdict was overturned in 2013 before being reinstated following an appeal by the prosecution. Umar left Malaysia for Australia on a tourist visa after the guilty verdict was overturned, and was still here when it was reinstated.
He was picked up early this year and has remained in immigration detention.
Shaariibuu was reportedly the mistress of Mr Baginda, who was initially charged with abetting the murder before the charges were dropped.
There has been speculation Shaariibuu was killed over her knowledge of corrupt payments made to senior Malaysian politicians and their staff surrounding the 2003 purchase of French submarines and Sukhoi aircraft.
It has been reported that Shaariibuu was effectively blackmailing Mr Baginda, demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for her silence.
Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has called for a full investigation, saying a policeman “does not kill people unless they are given the orders to do so’’. In March, a delegation comprising Umar’s mother, sister and at least one Malaysian opposition MP visited the former policeman inside Villawood detention centre.
The visit was approved by Serco, the contractors responsible for running Australia’s detention centres.
The centre was at the time under the control of the Immigration Department.
Border Force officials found out about the visit after the fact and are understood to have become highly alarmed amid concerns Umar may be vulnerable to intimidation or coercion.
Officials don’t know the precise reason of the March visit, however they are concerned its purpose was to encourage Umar to return to Malaysia where he faces death by hanging.
There are fears that Umar or members of his family could be subject to intimidation, threats or even physical harm if access to him is not controlled.
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