Sunday, October 3, 2010

Police Continue Surveillance At Alleged Murder Site In Ladang Gadong

KUALA LANGAT, Oct 3 (Bernama) -- Police will continue to man a check-post at Ladong Gadong, Tanjung Sepat where cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others were allegedly murdered.

Kuala Langat police chief Supt Nordin Manan said the area, especially the land that belongs to the main suspect, was under police control since investigations were ongoing.

"We have stationed police personnel to guard the place," he told Bernama when contacted here Sunday but did not elaborate further.

When Bernama visited the site today, the place was rather quiet and no cars were seen along the road leading to the farm, unlike in the past two or three weeks which saw a hive of activities in the area when police exposed the gruesome murders of Sosilawati and three others.

Only a police car (MPV) was part near the farm that belongs to the suspect.

Meanwhile, a police forensic car was seen entering the Kuala Langat police headquarters at 1.30pm today and leaving about an hour later, believed to have collected exhibits related to the murder.

Ladang Gadong, an oil palm estate where Longan orchards and vegetable farms are also present, became the focus of the nation when police identified a four-acre farm as the possible location where Sosilawati and three others were murdered and their ash strewn in rivers nearby.

Sosilawati, 47, her driver Kamarudin Shansuddin, 44, CIMB Bank officer from the Kampung Baru branch Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, and her personal lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, were reported missing since Aug 30 after going to Banting to discuss an alleged land deal.

Police believe the four were murdered, their bodies burned and ash strewn in nearby rivers.

It was later reported that the main suspects in the case, two lawyer brothers, may have also been involved in the disappearance of a millionaire businessman from India, Allal Kanthan Muthuraja, 34, and local contractor Shafik Abdullah, 37, from Kedah.

Muthuraja was reported missing since January while Shafik has been missing for the past five months, allegedly after meeting the suspects.

-- BERNAMA