Lawyer for Malaysia’s former PM Najib Razak says hitman’s claim ‘laughable’

A Malaysian death row inmate’s explosive claim that he murdered Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006 on the explicit orders of the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak is part of a conspiracy by those seeking to undermine the ex-leader, Najib’s lawyer said on Tuesday.A day after the statutory declaration from prison by former policeman Azilah Hadri was made public, Najib’s lawyer Shafee Abdullah put forth a stunning claim of his own – that the convicted killer had “met a VVIP…