Abdul Razak Baginda
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Abdul Razak Baginda is a political analyst charged with abetting the murder of Altantuya Shaaribuu, who was shot and blown up with C4 explosives in November 2006 in Shah Alam, Malaysia.
Baginda was born in 1960. He graduated with bachelor’s degree in politics and government from King’s College, Oxford and graduated in 1982. He continued to study and gained a master’s degree in war studies at the University of London in 1984.
In 1988, Baginda joined the Malaysian Armed Forces Defense College as a lecturer and eventually as the head of strategic studies. In 1993, he formed a think tank called the Malaysian Strategic Research Centre.
In around 2002, his name was mentioned in the Malaysian Parliament as brokering the purchase of Scorpene submarines by the Royal Malaysian Navy, in a deal estimated to be worth USD 800 million.
He is married to Mazlinda, a lawyer and former magistrate and they have one daughter born in 1988. His reported extra-marital affair with Altantuya Shaaribuu which seems to have led to the murder and blowing up of her body plus the link to important defense contracts provide a fertile ground for conspiracy theories. He has since admitted to his affair.
Razak Baginda is also a close aide of Najib Razak.
