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SHAH ALAM: The investigating officer in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case admitted that he did not investigate the crime scene from several angles.

Asst Supt Tonny Lunggan, when cross-examined by Datuk Hazman Ahmad, said he did not record the statement of the owner of the plot of land where the Mongolian woman was murdered.

He also admitted that he did not know whether there was anyone working at the nearby Subang dam on the night of Oct 19, 2006 when Altantuya was said to have been killed and blown up.

“I did not investigate that,” he said when pressed by Hazman, counsel for first accused C/Insp Azilah Hadri.

However, the investigating officer said he had ordered other officers to record the statements of two auxiliary policemen – Abdul Raimy Abdul Razak and Mustafa Umat – who were stationed at a beat base close to the crime scene that night.

ASP Lunggan insisted that there could not have been any workers at the dam when the murder took place because it was night-time and the surrounding area was all jungle.

He disagreed with a suggestion by Hazman that an explosion would easily have been heard or felt by the people in the area because it was such a quiet place.

“It happened during the Deepavali and Hari Raya celebrations.

“My investigations found that many firecrackers had been set off that night,” he said, adding that explosions from a bomb and that of firecrackers sounded quite similar to him.

To further questioning by Hazman, ASP Lunggan confirmed that the two auxiliary policemen were asked if they had heard any explosion that night but they were not asked if they had seen anything out of the ordinary.

The investigating officer agreed with the lawyer that the statements of these two auxiliary policemen – whose names are listed in the witness list but have yet to testify – were important.

The trial continues on Thursday.

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