00:00 A lawyer has denied all claims made by his former client Cyril Azhar Umar in Australia
00:07 in an interview with an international TV network.
00:10 Hasnal Rezwa Marykan said this included an allegation that he had paid Cyril one million
00:16 ringgit.
00:17 As Cyril's lawyer, Hasnal said he visited Cyril six or seven times during his incarceration
00:22 in Australia, but the last time he saw Cyril may have been in 2017 or 2018.
00:29 Yesterday, Al Jazeera English's 101 East programme aired an exclusive interview with
00:34 Cyril in Canberra, Australia, which was his first since his release two weeks ago.
00:40 A former policeman, Cyril is facing the death sentence in Malaysia for the murder of Mongolian
00:45 Altantuya Sharibu.
00:48 He claimed that he was a scapegoat in the incident and was paid a large sum of money
00:52 by Hasnal to exonerate former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak from any link to the
00:57 brutal murder in 2006.
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