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By Praveen Menon and Rozanna Latiff SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian policeman convicted of the murder of a Mongolian woman has walked free.
Malaysian ex-bodyguard Sirul Azhar Umar, convicted in Altantuya Shaariibuu's 2006 murder, released from Australian immigration detention due to a High Court ruling affecting around 80 immigrants. Umar alleges the murder was ordered by unidentified "important people."