The Court of Appeal today reduced the damages awarded to the family of murdered Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu from RM5 million to RM1.38 million in their lawsuit against political analyst Razak Baginda and two former policemen over her death in 2006.
Altantuya’s parents, Shaariibuu Setev and Altantsetseg Sanjaa, together with her son Mungunshagai, had sued the government, Razak and former policemen Sirul Azhar Umar and Azilah Hadri, alleging a conspiracy surrounding her murder.
In delivering the decision, Chief Judge of Malaya Hashim Hamzah said the High Court had erred in law in awarding the original RM5 million damages.
He also ruled that the government was not vicariously liable for the actions of Sirul and Azilah, on the grounds that they were not performing their official duties at the time of the murder.
The judgment was delivered by a panel comprising Hashim and Justices Azman Abdullah and K Muniandy.
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