CHENNAI: Dr Kasi Viswanathan has disputed his older brother A. Muthuraja's wife’s version of events surrounding her husband's disappearance.
He said yesterday that his family was concerned that Muthuraja’s wife S. Usharani was giving the authorities the wrong information.
“The passport that she’s showing the police and the media has expired. There were four expired passports attached to his current one.
“The current passport is missing and it must have been with him when he disappeared,” said Dr Kasi, who will arrive in Malaysia today to speak to the authorities.
He had lodged a missing person’s report about Muthuraja in March at the Klang district police station.
He said Usharani’s allegations that Muthuraja’s luggage had been given to him by one of the lawyer brothers was also untrue.
“I knew my brother liked to stay in Bukit Bintang due to the good choice of hotels there.
“I went to 11 hotels before finally locating my brother’s luggage when I was there in March,” he said.
He said Usharani was creating a ruckus because she was worried about herself now that Muthuraja was missing and wanted to establish her status as his wife.
“She has no legal link to him and even in his passport it’s stated that Ramalakshmi is his spouse. Her only trump card now is the child she had with my brother,” he said.
He said Usharani was also unable to bring her daughter to Malaysia because the child carried Muthuraja’s name.
“Since Usharani has no legal link with my brother, she cannot take his underage child out of the country. But Ramalakshmi is his legal wife and can travel with the child,” he said.
He also alleged that an Indian businessman based in Chennai was the one behind Usharani’s current actions.
“This businessman, who is instigating her obtained about RM40,000 from me for information about my brother and he put me in touch with a man called Elil to whom we paid another RM80,000,” he said.
It is believed that the Indian businessman is also a longtime friend of a PKR member who had put Usharani in touch with Kapar MP S. Manikavasagam.
