KUALA LUMPUR: Two more suspects have been arrested in relation to the murder of deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais.
City police CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Zainuddin Ahmad said the men, aged 46 and 47, were arrested at an unnumbered car wash near a food court in Jinjang.
“They were arrested at about 3pm on Thursday. They are being remanded for seven days until Sept 24,” he said.
A cafe located behind a workshop in USJ 1/6C, Subang Jaya, near the crime scene was also checked by the forensic team, said SAC Zainuddin.
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“Several case items were seized there. We then headed to a river in Kuala Selangor in search of more evidence with the help of the Civil Defence Department,” he said.
Results of a DNA test on the body found in an oil drum in Subang Jaya, believed to be that of Kevin, will only be confirmed in two weeks’ time.
His brother Datuk Richard Morais said he had been informed by the National Forensics Institute of Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) that the DNA results would only be ready in two weeks.
Richard and his other brother, David, had taken the test at the institute at about 8.15am yesterday.
“We will not be having a funeral until the results are known. It’s too early to decide on anything right now,” he said.
Kevin went missing on Sept 4 after leaving his residence in Menara Duta here for work in Putrajaya in a grey Proton Perdana bearing registration plate WA6264Q.
Police are urging anyone with information on an incident in Jalan Duta Mas near here at about 7.51am that day to come forward by contacting the nearest station or its hotline at .
A suspect in Kevin Morais’s murder case owns car workshop
Published: 18 September 2015 7:54 PM
One of the five suspects held by the police owns the car workshop near the site Kevin Morais's body was found. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, September 18, 2015.The police have confirmed that a car workshop in Subang Jaya, where deputy public prosecutor (DPP) Kevin Morais was held before he was bludgeoned to death is owned by one of five suspects held in connection with the killing.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Tajuddin Md Isa said the workshop located in USJ 3 came under police investigation as it was located not far from where the body of Morais was found.
"It (the workshop) belongs to one of the suspects... other information is still under investigation and cannot be disclosed (as yet).
"I urge those who have information related to the case to facilitate investigations," he said in Brickfields today.
Previously, the police had only suspected that the workshop belonged to the suspect due to its close proximity to where Morais's body was found at Persiaran Subang Mewah in USJ 1.
On Wednesday, a police team found the body dumped in a barrel filled with concrete in USJ 1 after one of the suspects led the police to the location.
Morais, 55, deputy chief of the Appellate and Trial Division in the Attorney-General’s Chambers was last seen leaving his apartment in Menara Duta, on September 4, to go to his office in Putrajaya.
He was driving a government-issue grey Proton Perdana bearing registration number WA6264Q when a car rammed into his vehicle before several people, believed to be hired killers abducted him.
The next day, the victim's car was found torched and abandoned at an oil palm plantation in Hutan Melintang, Perak. – Bernama, September 18, 2015.
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