{"id":6841,"date":"2010-09-17T16:59:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6841"},"modified":"2010-09-17T16:59:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:59:19","slug":"more-on-banting-murders-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/09\/17\/more-on-banting-murders-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Banting Murders (iv)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story continues today, with few more revelations:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The datukship of the suspect is being investigated by the police, and so far replies from the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">states indicates no such awards<\/span>, reports The Star. So, this most likely means its a<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/16\/nation\/7046238&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> bogus Datukship<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main suspect in the murder of cosmetics queen Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya is not a Datuk after all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police enquiries in all states to trace who had conferred a Datukship on the 41-year-old drew a blank, sources said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is learnt that the suspect had <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">bought the so-called title<\/span> from a businessman for RM180,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man had promised him that his name would be included on the list of recipients for Datukship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apparently, the businessman told the suspect that he was free to use the title following the inclusion of his name on the list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources revealed that police were also looking for the businessman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not only that, DAP&#8217;s Tony Pua had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/dap-wants-najib-to-reprimand-utusan\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>dismissed claims<\/strong><\/a> that the suspects are life-long members of DAP:<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/static.chartbeat.com\/js\/chartbeat.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that<em> Utusan Malaysia<\/em> also attempted to link DAP with the  murder of businesswoman Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and her friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn a report yesterday, <em>Utusan Malaysia<\/em> quoted a Mohd. Zahid Md.  Arip who tried to implicate DAP as being connected, even if remotely to the  ghastly murders of Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others,\u201d said Pua.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the report, Zahid who was a PKR Youth leader who defected to Umno claimed  that DAP has been silent on the murder because of the suspects\u2019 ties with the  party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFirst of all, the question of DAP not condemning the murders does not  arise.\u00a0 The party condemns all crimes, much more so heinous crimes such as the  above and we have been at the forefront both in and outside parliament to call  for the Royal Malaysian Police to increase their efficiency and effectiveness in  fighting crime in this country,\u201d said Pua.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSecondly and more importantly, it is a disgusting attempt by the Umno-owned  newspaper to insinuate and allege through its \u2018news\u2019 report that the murder  suspects are life-members of DAP, with <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">no attempt at all to confirm the veracity<\/span> of the allegations,\u201d he added <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">stressing that the suspects are not party members<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even HINDRAF<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com\/2010\/09\/14\/suspend-racist-and-religious-supremacist-umno-utusan-malay-sia-for-maliciously-implicating-hindraf-lawyers-in-murder-of-susilowati\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> had denied<\/strong><\/a> that the two lawyers are associated with them.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We refer to the above matter and to the Utusan Malay-sia headlines amongst others \u201cSiasatan juga mendapati Datuk itu (an Indian lawyer) pernah memberi bantuan guaman kepada Pertubuhan haram Hindraf dan menjadi ahli seumur hidup sebuah parti politik\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This statement is a completely untrue, false, malicious and a Seditious statement<\/span> calculated to tarnish Hindraf, cause disunity among the peaceful Indian and Malay communities in Malaysia and to cause racial disharmony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hindraf<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> categorically denies<\/span> that the lawyer\/s implicated in the murder of Susilawati has ever represented Hindraf or any of it\u2019s supporters or had rendered legal assistance to Hindraf at any material time. And neither do we know them or had ever known them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, no Datuk, no DAP, no Hindraf. What else left?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police believe they have built a strong case and so, evidence gathering efforts have stopped for the moment at the farm and river. But police are still guarding the area,<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/17\/nation\/20100917130605&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> said<\/strong><\/a> CID Director Datuk Seri Bakri Zinin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The river has<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/17\/nation\/7049963&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> provided about 300 bone fragments<\/strong><\/a> so far, according the report below.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sungai Panchau may hold more grisly secrets than imagined. Deep beneath its muddy surface are hundreds of human bone fragments, suggesting that it may have been a watery grave for many murder victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is learnt that police found more than <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">300 human bone fragments from the riverbed<\/span>, located about four to five kilometres from the farm where the quadruple murders took place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to an expert, who has been handling cremations for 20 years, a human body, once burned, would leave behind about 20 to 25 visible bone fragments.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far till yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/16\/nation\/20100916145210&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>nine cases<\/strong><\/a> involving the lawyer have been revealed said the police:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said there were <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">seven commercial crime cases <\/span>involving the lawyer, totalling RM7.1mil, since 2005.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;These crimes involved land sale to members of the public, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">all confined within the district<\/span>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khalid said two other cases related to the suspect were two missing persons reports and the murder of T. Selvi, 46, who was stabbed to death in front of her house in Taman Cempaka, Banting, in April last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khalid disclosed this to reporters in a press conference after having a dialogue session with local community leaders here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He accompanied Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar for the event at the district police headquarters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked if the lawyer had bribed police in the district to cover up his misdeeds, Khalid said: &#8220;If there is bribery in the force, do not hesitate to report it to me personally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said police would not protect those who were corrupt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khalid also said there were no visits by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission to the district police headquarters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There will be an <a href=\"http:\/\/mmail.com.my\/content\/49668-kuala-langat-cops-under-scrutiny\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>investigation<\/strong><\/a> into the police department and land office as well to determine if there improprieties involved:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Federal police are to<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> interview Kuala Langat police personnel who handled the  re-opened files<\/span> of seven fraud allegations, a murder and a missing person\u2019s  report linked to the &#8220;Datuk lawyer&#8221;, the key suspect in the grisly quadruple  killings here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was learnt Kuala Langat Land Office staff would also be questioned in  connection with the fraud reports, all believed to involve land transactions  valued at RM7.1 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">fraud reports had been lying idle since 2005<\/span> while the murder involving a  woman, T. Selvi from Taman Chempaka here, occurred in Dec 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Federal police will establish whether there was any interference in the  probes, or if there was one at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police and Land Office personnel who have been transferred or had retired  would have their statements recorded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police have not disclosed the identities of the complainants who claimed  irregularities in the land deals including sale and purchase agreements prepared  by the lawyer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the Star<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/16\/nation\/7046239&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> quoted its source<\/strong><\/a>s saying that the henchmen who allegedly carried out the murders <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">may belong to several underworld groups<\/span>. Sources here say the main suspect in the grisly murders, a lawyer, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">had close contacts with gang members as they often came to him for legal advice<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A source who attended primary and secondary school with the main suspect said the lawyer also had strong connections with a group of people who were restricted residents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThey would do anything for him as he had helped them and their families a lot,\u201d said the source.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the lawyer\u2019s philanthropy had also helped him gain the support and respect of the men who allegedly carried out his orders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPeople did not want to mess with him, and that is why some of those who had had bad experiences with him settled their issues amicably,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The case of the Chennai businessman gets more confusing as the Indian newspapers are <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/16\/nation\/7046237&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>taking an interest as well<\/strong><\/a>. You can read one such article from Deccan Chronicles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/national\/chennai-man-killed-abroad-988\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The disappearance of Indian millionaire A. Muthuraja has taken an intriguing twist \u2013 now the Indian media has taken up the story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muthuraja\u2019s wife S. Usharani\u2019s refusal to lodge a report with the Indian police has fuelled speculation that there is more to his disappearance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Usharani, 24, claims that she was afraid to lodge the report in Chennai as she lived alone with her daughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muthuraja allegedly disappeared after coming to Malaysia to meet the two lawyer brothers who have been implicated in the murder of cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three men with her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The papers believed to be pursuing the story are the <em>Deccan Chronicle<\/em>, <em>Times of India<\/em> and Tamil vernacular afternoon papers <em>Maalai Malar<\/em> and <em>Maalai Murasu<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is believed that Muthuraja also financed movies in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources in India also alleged that the lawyer brothers had acquired substantial property in Namakkal located in Erode, Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, it is learnt that Muthuraja\u2019s brother, known as Kasi, had contacted a PKR member when he was here to look for his brother four months after he disappeared.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When contacted, the PKR man said: \u201cWe suspected Muthuraja was being held captive and that is why we asked Usharani to lodge the police report here on Sept 8.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you remember, the wife of Muthuraja said that she had made a police report earlier and her second report was on Sept 8. But this is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/142808\" target=\"_blank\">denied by police<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>However, he added, a police report on the missing businessman was only lodged on Sept 8.<br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>&#8220;So, how could we have known (about this case) if there was no police report made?&#8221; he said at a press conference after a police-community function at the Kuala Langat district police headquarters which was also attended by inspector-general of police Ismail Omar and his deputy Hussin Ismail in Banting.<br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>Khalid (<em>left<\/em>) said the lawyer was also linked to the murder of a woman in Banting last year.<br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>A newspaper report today said the 44-year-old woman, T Selvi, who was the wife of an auto workshop owner, was believed to have been killed over a loan dispute involving the lawyer.<br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/><br id=\"cG9vYmFsYW4=\" \/>&#8220;Although the woman&#8217;s husband has made various statements on the case, I don&#8217;t wish to comment on it as the case is still under investigation,&#8221; said Khalid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And note the above, murder last year still under investigation. Maybe he meant the file is still open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/17\/nation\/7050989&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>More news<\/strong><\/a> about Chennai businessman death:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the investigation into the killings of cosmetics queen Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three of her aides is being wrapped up here, a related drama is unfolding in Chennai, India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wife of missing multi-millionaire A. Muthuraja, who had allegedly met the lawyer brothers implicated in the Sosilawati case early this year, claims that only Rs1,000 (RM67) is left in his previously huge account after he came to Banting to meet the two men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI don\u2019t know where his money went but I think it must have found its way to Malaysia,\u201d alleged S. Usharani, who said her husband left her broke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI have nothing. Not even my jewellery,\u201d lamented Usharani, 24, when contacted in Chennai yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources in India, however, said Usharani, a housewife, earned a reasonable monthly sum from the rental of her husband\u2019s properties as well as from interest earned on loans he gave out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muthuraja, who made his wealth through business, movie financing and real estate, had allegedly gone missing after meeting the brothers on Jan 18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muthuraja\u2019s disappearance has opened a floodgate of sorts, with several Indian newspapers working hard to unravel the mystery behind the movie financier\u2019s 10-year friendship with the two Banting lawyers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Usharani refuted an allegation by Indian businessman V.R. Kannan that the Malaysian police had called her to say Muthuraja had been murdered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kannan, who had accompanied Usharani on a trip to Kuala Lumpur from Chennai on Sept 8 to lodge a report at the Banting police station, had told <em>The Star<\/em> that the call came to Usharani at about 6.30pm (Malay\u00adsian time) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Usharani retorted: \u201cNo one called me. Please do not believe what is being said about my husband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A journalist with a Chennai-based English daily said speculation was rife that Muthuraja worked as a middleman for business deals between the two brothers and some influential people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/mmail.com.my\/content\/49668-kuala-langat-cops-under-scrutiny\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>reading the below news<\/strong><\/a> will make you more confused:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Various theories abound over the disappearance of Chennai millionaire A.  Muthuraja, 34, with some alleging his involvement in clandestine activities with  the lawyer brothers, key suspects in the murder of cosmetics queen Datuk  Sosilawati Lawiya and her three associates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have known each other for about 10 years and speculation is rife that  the trio could have been involved in sinister businesses here and in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muthuraja\u2019s wife Usha Rani, 24, had told Indian Press that her husband had  told her that the brothers were into \u2018shady\u2019 deals and that he had wanted to cut  all connections with them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, when Muthuraja came to Malaysia on Jan 18, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">he had about 20kg of  jewellery and substantial cash<\/span>, according to Usha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indian media reported that Usha had not made a missing person\u2019s report in  Chennai stoking suggestions that it was a deliberate move to keep her husband  off the police radar there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Journalist Tamil Selvam told <em>The Malay Mail<\/em> that Usha\u2019s claim that  she did not lodge a report in Chennai for fear of reprisal was \u201cregrettable\u201d as  what she needed now was police protection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Usha had said she was afraid to lodge a report in Chennai because she lived  alone with her three-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cShe flew down to Malaysia to make a missing person\u2019s report on Sept 8, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">long  after Muthuraja went missing on Jan 18, so it makes no sense why she did not  lodge a report in Chennai as well<\/span>,\u201d said Tamil Selvam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said if she had feared for her safety Usha would not have come to Malaysia  to make the report on Sept 8 because the brothers were only arrested in  connection with the quadruple murders three days later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMalaysian police might need the assistance of their Indian counterparts to  conduct a thorough investigation into Muthuraja\u2019s disappearance that might just  lead to something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Usha\u2019s claim that the latest missing person\u2019s report was her second was  denied yesterday by Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She had also said her brother-in-law Kasi Viswanathan came here four months  ago to look for her husband.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lawyer brothers, she said, immediately sent him back to Chennai with  Muthuraja\u2019s luggage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She claimed they told him her husband was caught attempting to smuggle  ketamine into the country and that they should lie low.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, she recalled that a man claiming to have served a short prison term  in Malaysia showed up in Tirunelveli, a district of Tamil Nadu in south India,  and her husband\u2019s relatives had met Muthuraja in jail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muthuraja has various business ventures in India including jewellery shops,  plantations, hotels and restaurants.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bar Council also<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/nst\/articles\/9br\/Article\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> strives to protect its image<\/strong><\/a> by saying that the police should hasten investigation of lawyers removed from the bar.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>Errant lawyers struck off the rolls by the Disciplinary Board are not being  investigated by police despite reports lodged against them.This is one of the main concerns which will be brought up by the Malaysian  Bar in its first meeting with the Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail  Omar soon.<\/p>\n<p>Bar Council president Ragunath Kesavan said an average of 40  lawyers were disbarred annually for various cases, including criminal breach of  trust, adding that it had 13,000 members.<br \/>\n&#8220;In most cases, police reports are lodged against lawyers but  unfortunately, police action has been slow or none at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of these case are treated as NFA (no further action) by police,  especially at the district level,&#8221; said Ragunath who was speaking to reporters  after the launch of the sixth phase of the Bar&#8217;s &#8220;My Constitution&#8221; awareness  campaign here yesterday in conjunction with Malaysia Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We urge the  IGP to ensure that the federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman handles all  cases dealing with errant lawyers. District police stations should be left out.<br \/>\n&#8220;On our part, when we receive complaints against lawyers, the most we can  do is to strike them off the rolls. In most, if not all cases, we also lodge  police reports against the errant lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is up to the police to act  fast in bringing them to book based on the reports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ragunath said the  Bar was prepared to assist police in any way in the investigations against these  errant lawyers.<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re not here to defend errant lawyers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read an interview with Bar Council president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/bar-council-cannot-police-lives-of-lawyers-says-president\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, The Star <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/17\/nation\/7053622&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>writes about<\/strong><\/a> the suspects&#8217; family wealth. From my understanding, their family where involved in money-lending business since those days.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Contrary to reports that they came from humble beginnings, the two lawyer brothers implicated in the Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya murder had a good start in life as their parents were wealthy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A long-time Banting resident, who has known the lawyers and their family for almost four decades, said their father had amassed substantial wealth through land brokerage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe was clever in handling money and had bought a piece of prime land in the centre of Banting town that fetched a good price when the town was developed,\u201d said the woman, who wanted to be known only as Devi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said a developer gave the lawyers\u2019 father several shophouses in contra deals for the land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Devi added: \u201cHe managed his money well and kept adding to his properties. He also gave all his children a good education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is believed that one of the lawyers is the eldest of four children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, a Banting-based businessman, who claims to have known the main suspect since they were children, alleged that he got into a controversial land deal with the lawyer about five years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe told me there was a piece of land going cheap in Klang and asked if I would like to join him in a partnership to buy and resell the land for a big profit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The businessman, who declined to be named, said he agreed and used his house as collateral for the lawyer to take a loan to buy the land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe borrowed about RM450,000 with my house title but I found out later that the land did not exist,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lawyer, however, returned the land deed to the Banting businessman last year with a caveat placed on the property to prevent the businessman from selling or transferring it to anyone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe told me he\u2019ll remove the caveat but I have to seek help from others now,\u201d said the businessman.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story continues today, with few more revelations: The datukship of the suspect is being investigated by the police, and so far replies from the states indicates no such awards, reports The Star. So, this most likely means its a bogus Datukship. The main suspect in the murder of cosmetics queen Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-6841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6842,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions\/6842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}