PETALING JAYA, Sept 17 – Police recovered the body of deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais in a cement-filled oil drum in a swampy ravine USJ 1, Subang Jaya here on Wednesday. In the same time, police was also arrest of a military doctor and three other men. While the case was solved on Tuesday.
Morais, 55, was abducted and killed before his body was covered in a sack and stuffed into an oil drum with filled with the wet concrete. The motive behind his murder was to silence him over an ongoing corruption case that he was handling. The case that he handling was also involved the alleged misappropriation of funds in the acquisition of medical equipment for a military hospital.
The doctor,52-year-old who holds the rank of colonel in the army, is allegedly the main suspect in the case was arrest by the police in his house in Subang Jaya on Tuesday when police are launching the series of raids where a businessman, two mechanics and a fourth suspect were detained in various locations in the Klang Valley and Penang.
“Thevictim’s killers had dumped the drum into a ravine at an undergrowth behind the SJK Chee Wen vernacular primary school after the killing. The suspects led police to Morais’ body at 6am on Wednesday. As the drum was submerged in the waters, police frogmen were summoned to winch it from the ravine,” said Federal police CID director commissioner Datuk Seri Mohmad Salleh.
“Meanwhile, in the four hour operation, firemen assisted police to cut open the drum and retrieve the victim’s body and sent to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for a postmortem. In additional, police will also seek the maximum remand order on the four suspects who are aged between 22 and 52,” he said.
“A receipt was issued by a hardware shop in Subang Jaya while the suspects 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,” he said.
The sources said this was first ever case of a DPP being murdered to suppress court proceedings while police detectives had monitored the movements of the main suspect and to apprehend him on Tuesday after “sufficient evidence” was gathered during the stakeouts substantiated their suspicions of his involvement in the killing.
