DPP's body is found, army doc among held
Published on: Thursday, September 17, 2015
PETALING JAYA: The mystery behind the abduction of prominent Deputy Public Prosecuter Anthony Kevin Morais was solved Wednesday when police recovered his body in a cement-filled oil drum in a swampy ravine in USJ 1, Subang Jaya here following the arrest of a military doctor and three other men.The motive behind his murder was to silence him over an ongoing corruption case he was handling that involved the alleged misappropriation of funds in the acquisition of medical equipment for a military hospital.Morais, 55, was abducted and killed before his body was covered in a sack and stuffed into an oil drum filled with wet concrete.
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Following the arrest of a 52-year-old doctor at his house in Subang Jaya on Tuesday, police launched a series of raids where a businessman, two mechanics and a fourth suspect were detained in various locations in the Klang Valley and Penang. The doctor, who holds the rank of colonel in the army, is allegedly the main suspect in the case.Federal police CID director commissioner Datuk Seri Mohmad Salleh said the victim's killers had dumped the drum into a ravine at an undergrowth behind the SJK Chee Wen vernacular primary school after the killing.He said the suspects led police to Morais' body at 6am.He said as the drum was submerged in the waters, police frogmen were summoned to winch it from the ravine.
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Mohmad said in the four hour operation, firemen assisted police to cut open the drum and retrieve the victim's body which was sent to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for a postmortem.Mohmad said police will seek the maximum remand order on the four suspects who are aged between 22 and 52, adding that one of the suspects has a previous criminal record for possession of stolen goods.
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He said police also detained the wife and child of a suspect during the operation. They were freed today after recording a statement from the wife.Police also seized three vehicles – a Mitsubishi Triton that was used to abduct Morais; and a Honda Accord and Proton Persona belonging to the suspects. They also recovered RM17,000 from a suspect who was held in Penang and RM15,000 from another suspect held here.Mohmad said a receipt issued by a hardware shop in Subang Jaya for the purchase of sand, cement and gravel that was used to dispose the victim's body was also found on a suspect.It is learnt that the doctor in question attached with an armed forces hospital was charged on two counts of corruption involving a sum of RM700,000 in Sept 2013.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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