KUALA LUMPUR: All six police reports lodged against the two lawyer brothers linked to the disappearance of cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya pertained to cheating offences and not murder, says Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.
He said the reports, made between Aug 19, 2005 and Sept 14 this year, were all about land transactions and cheating.
"Can you imagine how many police reports are made on cheating every day? To relate them with a murder case of this nature is irresponsible," he told reporters during a press conference at the Parliament lobby here Monday.
Earlier in the Dewan Rakyat, the minister answered a question from Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) on the the date and nature of the police reports lodged against the brothers and reasons for police inaction.
Hishammuddin said he deliberately chose to address the issue in Parliament to clear up the matter.
He quashed claims that reports made against the suspects in the Sosilawati case were not investigated.
"There were no missing person reports linking the suspects before this. Only one report was lodged by the brother of Indian businessman A. Muthuraja on March 29 on the latter's disappearance but the facts of the case veered towards a cheating offence," he said.
Hishammuddin added that the suspect in the Muthuraja case was not the same as the main suspects in the Sosilawati's case.
When asked, in a supplementary question by Salahuddin Ayub (PAS - KubangKerian), how long it would take for the DNA report in the Sosilawati murder case to be ready, Hishammuddin said both the police and the Attorney-General's Chambers were trying to get the results as soon as possible.
Sosilawati, 47, and three others - lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, CIMB Bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, and driver Kamarudin Shansudin, 44, - went missing on Aug 30. Their remains were later found in Ladang Gadong, near Banting.
The disappearance of Muthuraja has also been linked to suspects in the murders of Sosilawati and the three others.
