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newswithout borders4 theSun | TUESDAY AUGUST 25 2009
Warrant ofarrest issued
against Koh Kim Teck
Four robbers shot deadSEREMBAN: Four robbers,believed to be
Indonesians, wereshot dead when they attackedpolice with machetes
and firedshots from a revolver at a tun-nel beneath the
North-SouthExpressway at Km276.3, earlyyesterday.
Negeri Sembilan policechief Datuk Osman Salleh saidbefore the
5.20am incident, thefour men who were in a ProtonAeroback with
plate numberWJP5728 were stopped by policeon an anti-crime
operation in theLabu area.
When our men got out of
the patrol cars, the suspectssuddenly sped off towards Nilaiand
entered a quarry road beforecrashing into the tunnel at aSime Darby
plantation, he toldreporters here yesterday.
He said as the suspects gotout of their car, one of them
firedtwo shots from a .38 revolverbut did not hit the target as
therevolver was faulty.
Police returned fire, killingthe suspects, and found two
longmachetes, a sickle-like weapon,a .38 revolver and a crowbar
atthe scene of the incident.
Osman said the robbers hadbeen targeting isolated homes inthe
Malay settlements of Labuand Nilai.
He said that on Aug 21 atabout 1.45am, the robbers hadfled with
cash, a computer,handphone and watch, all valuedat RM5,000, from a
house and40 minutes later, they robbedanother house of items
worthRM1,500.
The car they had beendriving around is also believedto have been
stolen from thecommercial area of Terminal 2,here.
Meanwhile, state CID chiefACP Mohd Zaki Masroh saida patron at
the Bistro R n R inLukut was slightly injured whena man fired a
shot in a robbery at1am yesterday at the outlet.
The other patrons and thebistro owner were, however,unhurt in
the incident.
Police are looking for threemen involved in the robberywhere
they escaped with cash,a Rolex watch and handphones,all worth
RM40,000, belongingto the bistro owner and patrons. Bernama
PUTRAJAYA: A warrant of arrestwas issued against businessman
KohKim Teck by the Court of Appeal hereyesterday after he failed to
turn up forthe prosecutions appeal against hisacquittal from a
charge of murderinga 13-year-old Chinese boy.
Justice Datuk Suriyadi Halim Omar,who led the panel comprising
DatukSulaiman Daud and Datuk Jeffrey TanKok Wha, granted the
prosecutionsapplication for the warrant.
The prosecution is appealingagainst the acquittal of Koh, 58,
andhis two bodyguards, Resty Agpalo andMohamad Najib Zulkifli, of
murderingXu Jian Huang in a bungalow at Jalan
Mengkuang, off Jalan Ampang, KualaLumpur, between 11pm on Sept
26,2004 and 3.30pm the following day.
In September 2005, Koh, Resty,and Mohamad Najib, were
acquittedand discharged by the Kuala LumpurHigh Court without their
defence be-ing called.
The prosecutions appeal has been
postponed more than four timesbecause of Kohs absence. Resty,
40and Mohamad Najib, 32, who wererepresented by counsel Gobind
SinghDeo, were present.
The prosecution had previouslyapplied for a warrant of arrest
againstKoh but was advised by the court toproduce the needed
affidavits andexhibits to support the application.
Deputy public prosecutor AwangArmadajaya Awang Mahmud submit-ted
that the validity of the medicalcertificate tendered to court
duringthe last hearing was doubtful becausethere were no records of
Kohs admis-sion and discharge from the Lian Tang
Hospital in Shen Zheng City, China, asclaimed.
The medical leave dated Oct 25,2007, stated that Koh was
sufferingfrom rheumatic heart disease and hadhigh blood
pressure.
Awang Armadajaya said there wasno record that a Malaysian had
beenadmitted to the hospital at that time
and the Immigration Departmentsrecords also stated that there
was nomovement in Kohs passport.
When Suriyadi asked who hadtendered the medical certificate,
Kohscounsel, Datuk V. Sithambaram,informed the court that he had,
andadded that he received it from Kohsfamily.
He also said that the medicalcertificate was issued by the
doctorwho treated Koh and not through thehospital.
Sithambaram also informed thecourt that Koh had contacted him
andsaid he was overseas.
Asked by Justice Tan why the
counsel was in court when Koh wasabsent, Sithambaram produced a
letterof appointment as Kohs counsel, say-ing that the court had
informed himevery time the case came up.
Justice Suriyadi, in granting theapplication, said Koh is still
in thecountry and the prosecution can arresthim. Bernama
Labourer changesplea to not guiltyKOTA BARU: A construction
labourer charged with illegalpossession of an ME 38 pistol and50
bullets yesterday changed hisplea to not guilty and asked to
betried at the sessions court here.
Mohamad Hasiha Shasim, 28,previously pleaded guilty to thetwo
charges before Judge DazukiAli who had fixed for the sentenc-ing
yesterday.
Mohamad Hasiha is chargedwith committing the two offencesat a
house in Jalan Sultanah Za-inab, here at 11.50pm on Aug 3.
He is facing a maximum of20 years jail and six strokes ofthe
cane, or both, if convictedunder Section 8 of the
Firearms(Increased Penalty) Act 1971.
For the second charge of pos-sessing 50 rounds of 9mm .38blank
bullets without a validlicence, he is facing up to seven
years in jail and a maximum fineof RM10,000 or both, upon
con-viction, under the Firearms Act1960.
Dazuki granted Mohamad
Hasihas application to changehis plea and fixed Sept 29 for
themention. Bernama
Guard foundmurderedKUALA LUMPUR: A securityguard was found dead
withfive slash wounds on the backof his head and with his leftarm
severed at the wrist, nearthe entrance of a factory inTaman Ehsan,
Kepong, here,yesterday morning.
The body of Ramli Ilyas, 41,was covered in blood when hewas
found by a colleague whocame to relieve him of his shiftat around
7.30am.
Gombak police chief ACPAbdul Rahim Abdullah said po-lice found a
parang, believed tohave been used in the incidentat the back
entrance.
Police believe that thevictim, who was from Sabah
and had worked for a year atthe factory which producesfruit
essence, was murderedbetween 4am and 6am, hesaid.
Near miss for manduring bank robberyby Charles
[email protected]
PETALING JAYA: An elderlyman escaped death when a bankrobber who
was making his es-cape with an accomplice openedfire with a
revolver at TamanPuchong Prima yesterday.
The man, who is in his 60s,was driving his car past the
HongLeong Bank branch on JalanPrima Utama 5/3 at about 2pmwhen both
the robbers dashedout of the bank.
On seeing the robbers, theman froze and stopped his carwhich
blocked the path of thefleeing robbers. This angeredone of the
robbers who thenfired a shot at the car. The bulletwent through the
windscreenand narrowly missed the driver.
Subang Jaya police chief ACPZainal Rashid said the robbers
who wore full-face helmets and
armed with revolvers had earlierbarged into the bank and
opened
fire into the air before warningabout 10 bank staff and
custom-ers to remain quiet.
He said while a robbersnatched the bank securityguards shotgun
and kept watchover him, his accomplice jumpedover the tellers
counter andbundled wards of cash estimatedto be RM700,000 into a
bag.
He said both robbers fled fromthe bank and escaped in a
greenProton Saga parked nearby afterfiring the gunshot at the
eld-erly mans car. They dumped theguards shotgun next to wheretheir
car was parked.
Zainal said police haveretrieved a close-circuit camerarecording
and have mounted ahunt for the robbers.
He urged those with infor-mation to contact the Selangor
police hotline at 03-2052 9999.
