MALAYSIA, PETALING JAYA: Independent MP Zulkifli Noordin dropped a bombshell in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday when he revealed that he was once ordered to implicate Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in the murder of Altantuya Shaaribu.

Amidst gasps of disbelief from MPs, the Kulim-Bandar Baharu lawmaker claimed that he was asked to get sworn statements that the Prime Minister and his wife were involved in the Mongolian womans murder.

"I myself was asked to make a statutory declaration to implicate them both. "

"I decided not to do it, even though the reward offered shook my faith," he said as the House listened in stunned silence.

He did not say who had ordered him to do so.

Zulkifli had discharged himself as defence lawyer for Chief Insp Azilah Hadri, one of the accused in the Altantuya murder case during the hearing in 2007.

Debating the motion of thanks on Royal Address, Zulkifli also slammed private investigator P. Balasubramaniam, who had made a statutory declaration in connection with the case in 2008 but retracted it the next day.

Azilah and Kpl Sirul Azhar Umar were sentenced to death by the High Court last year for murdering Altantuya. Political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda was charged with abetting the two policemen but was acquitted in 2008.

Zulkifli also claimed that in 2004, he was asked to link the son of Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz to the murder of a man.

"I was asked to ensure that Nazri's son was somehow connected to the murder case. I thank Allah that I managed to steer away from such things," he added.

Nazri's son was a witness interviewed by police investigating the death of a student following an attack at a food outlet in Sri Hartamas in July 2004.

Five Thai nationals were subsequently charged with causing the death of the student. They pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years in prison.

Later at the Parliament lobby, Zulkifli claimed he had documented proof including audio recordings to support all his claims, besides many other "assignments" which he had not revealed in the Dewan. He said it was his practice to record and keep documents of every "mission and assignment" he was entrusted with.

"There was even an assignment where I was to really discredit Datin Seri Rosmah. The assignment was very slanderous and too dirty that I told myself, this is too much," he said, adding that in most of the assignments, he was directed to execute them alone.