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BERNAMA source
SEGAMAT, Sat.:
The family of slain Tenggaroh state assemblyman, Datuk S. Krishnasamy, has asked the media to stop publishing speculative reports on the killing to allow the police to investigate the murder.
Krishnasamy’s second son, Raj Kumar, 32, said the family hoped the media would stop asking speculative questions.
The media should allow the police to complete their investigations into the murder, he said, reading out a prepared press statement at their family house in Bandar Putera here today.
Krishnasamy, 61, who was also Johor MIC deputy chief, was shot dead point blank by a gunman in the lift at the state MIC headquarters at Jalan Segget in Johor Baru yesterday.
Police are looking at all angles and have not ruled out political or business rivalry or even moneylending and gangsterism as motives.
Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman, MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu and Barisan Nasional (BN) component party leaders are among 2,000 people who paid their last respects to Krishnasamy at his residence. He will be buried at the Hindu cemetery in Tangkak today. The cortege will leave for the cemetery at 4pm.
Raj Kumar said his father worked hard as a state assemblyman to ensure no race was marginalised in development projects implemented by the government.
Johor Police Chief Datuk Hussin Ismail said police have thrown a dragnet around Johor to prevent the killer from fleeing the state. He said the Indian hitman is in his 30s, medium-built and about 152cm tall.
One of his close business associates was a man with known underworld links, The New Straits Times said.
Unnamed sources said their relationship, which began before Krishnasamy entered politics, turned sour about two years ago when police closed in on the man’s activities.
The businessman, from Kedah, was investigated for passport forgery, human trafficking and several other cases. He is said to have moved his operations from Kedah to Johor several years ago.
The deceased was said to have helped his associate obtain a tow-truck business licence in Johor Baru.
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