KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 – The police will submit an application to extend the remand order on a taxi driver who was believed to have ferried a suspected assassin in the murder of Arab-Malaysian Banking Group (now known as AmBank) founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi last Monday.
Kuala Lumpur CID chief Datuk Ku Chin Wah said the taxi driver, whose seven-day remand would expire tomorrow, was still needed to help the police in the investigations into the murder.
“We believe the 44-year-old taxi driver can help the police track down the suspect, thus solve the murder. The police believe the suspect is still in the capital,” he told reporters at Bukit Aman here, today.
Hussain, 75, was shot dead while his wife, Cheong Mei Kuen, 49, is seriously injured when they were attacked by a gunman as they left the Kuan Yin Temple in Lorong Ceylon here at about 2pm last Monday.
Ku said the police were investigating the taxi driver’s link with the suspect known as Sei Ngan Chai or Ah Chian who was in his 40s.
“The suspect has no criminal records. The police stormed his home last week, but he has disappeared,” said Ku.
He urged those with information on the suspect to contact the nearest police station.
– BERNAMA
