KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 — Lim Kit Siang questioned today Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s claim that the judgment in Altantuya Shaariibuu’s murder case had brought him justice, pointing out that the court decision had not in any way involved the prime minister.

The DAP politician noted that the judgment had only resulted in the conviction of former police commandos Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar Umar for the murder crime but never unveiled under whose orders the duo had acted on.

He pointed out that after the Federal Court decision earlier this year, it had been revealed by Sirul, who is now awaiting the results of his bid for political asylum in Australia, that someone had ordered him and his colleague to kill the Mongolian model in 2006.

“Did the Federal Court judgment categorically and conclusively rule out any possibility of Najib or anyone else as in any way implicated in Altantuya’s murder, such as ordering that the Mongolian be killed and her body blown up by C4 military explosives?

“Of course not, as this issue was studiously and completely avoided during the nine-year trial of Azilah and Sirul,” Lim said.

Noting that Najib has already sworn that he had played no part in the gruesome murder, the Gelang Patah MP said the prime minister should have no qualms about ordering a full inquiry to uncover who had masterminded the crime.

For this purpose, Lim suggested the formation of a Royal Commission of Inquiry with two terms of reference — to find out who ordered Altantuya’s murder and whether the police, Attorney-General, judiciary or any other individual had conspired to avoid probing the murder motive.

On Sunday, Najib took to his blog to answer 13 key issues plaguing his administration, including the controversies surrounding the murder of the Mongolian in 2006.

In his comment, the prime minister said that the court judgment had brought justice to everyone, including him.

“What is important is that the judgment brings justice to everyone, most importantly to the family of the victim, to the accused and even to me,” Najib wrote.

“I have stated many times that I have nothing to do with this issue, and even sworn an oath on the Quran in a mosque,” he added.

Sirul and Azilah were both sentenced to hang in January this year for the 2006 murder after the Federal Court reversed their previous acquittal.

Sirul was a no-show during the sentencing, however, and it was later revealed that he had fled to Australia to live with his kin.

Following a red alert issued by Interpol on Sirul, Australia’s immigration authorities caught up with him and detained him at Villawood.

The former police commando is currently caught in a legal limbo as although Australian law prohibits its government from sending criminals to countries that have the death penalty, he similarly cannot be released into the community there as he is a convicted murderer.