According to Malaysiakini, which quoted The Australian, Malaysian-born Robert A Chelliah would reveal the extent of access that officials from Malaysia had with Sirul at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney where he remains to this day.
“I will be forced to reveal the nature of conversations he (Sirul) had with me and of that we had with his Malaysian lawyers,” Robert told The Australian newspaper.
Robert also said he had tried persuading Sirul to reveal the truth about the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006, for which he was sentenced to death by hanging, but that the process was “hijacked by various interests in the Malaysian special branch and Malaysian political system.”
Apart from Sirul, his colleague Azilah Hadri was also found guilty of shooting the woman, then blowing-up her body with explosives. Azilah is on death row in Malaysia.
Last week Sirul said that in a fourth and final video he has recorded, the names of those who attempted to offer him bribes or coerce him into implicating Najib in the woman’s murder, would be revealed.
Lawyer Americk Sidhu, the lawyer of a now deceased private investigator close to the murder case, weighed in on the matter and said he believed that Robert would be named as one of the five that Sirul would expose.
According to Malaysiakini, Americk suspected the others to be PAS MP Mahfuz Omar, former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Umno man Khairuddin Abu Hassan and Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown.