Putrajaya hopes Australia will extradite one of the two policemen sentenced to death on Tuesday for the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu if the commando is still there.Deputy Home Minister Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said the court in Australia had the power to determine whether Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar could be extradited if he was nabbed in that country based on the crime."What will happen if there are parties, or Sirul himself, challenges his extradition in an Australian court? So, the legal process of extradition will then be determined in court."It will then depend on the court to send Sirul back to face his sentence meted out by the Malaysian court."I have also been informed that Australia does not have the mandatory death sentence as in Malaysia. Perhaps, this could be a factor used by Sirul and his lawyer to prevent... even if Sirul does not challenge, the people in Australia might," he said today.Wan Junaidi was speaking at a press conference after opening the Nepal Consular office in Penang.Also present was Nepal Ambasassador to Malaysia, Dr Niranjan Man Singh Basnyat and Penang Nepal Consular Honorary Consul Datuk Huan Cheng Guan.Sirul Azhar, 43, on Tuesday was abroad and not present in court when the Federal Court issued a warrant of arrest for him.The court earlier sentenced Sirul Azhar and another UTK commando, Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri, to death after finding them guilty of murdering Altantuya nine years ago.The court unanimously set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal on October 23, 2013, to acquit the duo. – Bernama, January 15, 2014.
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