Australia’s foreign minister on Wednesday defended her country’s ties with Malaysia’s former government after Canberra was accused of being complicit in alleged corruption by harboring the alleged murderer of model Altantuya Shaaribuu, Channel News Asia reports. In June 2006, a pregnant Altantuya was taken to a forest and shot twice in the head and then her body blown up with explosives, according to The Guardians. Two bodyguards working for former Prime Minister Najib Rajak, Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar Umar, were convicted of the murder and sent to jail in 2008. Altantuya had been the lover of Abdul Razak Baginda, a known associate of Najib, and many believe that her involvement in a defence deal to purchase two French Scorpene submarines may have led to her death.