The Malaysian police are reopening investigations into the gruesome murder of Mongolian national Sh.Altantuya in 2006. The young model was killed brutally, but so far those who ordered the killing have not been brought to justice.

‘I can confirm we are reopening investigations,’ Police Chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun told ‘The Star’ daily yesterday. He said they would be studying the not only the old police report but also a new one lodged in the Dang Wangi district police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

Deputy KL District Police Chief Zainuddin Yaacob confirmed that the father of model Altantuya, Mr Setev Shaariibuu, who is currently in Malaysia, lodged a report at Dang Wangi around noon on Wednesday.

Ms Altantuya, 28, was killed and her body blown up with explosives in jungle just outside the Malaysian capital in October 2006.

In 2009, former police commandos Sirul Azhar Umar and Azilah Hadri were found guilty of her murder.

The Court of Appeal overturned their sentences in 2013, but, upon the prosecution’s appeal in 2015, the Apex Federal Court upheld the sentences.

But Sirul had by then fled to Australia. He has been held at a detention centre in Sydney after Interpol issued a red notice on him since 2015.

Political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, who was charged together with the two commandos, was freed on 31 October 2008, after the court found no concrete evidence against him.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad met Mr Shaariibuu on Wednesday.