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Elizabeth disappears for a second time, brother seeks police help


Elizabeth Momay Donny’s (right pic) sudden disappearance from her home has caused anxiety to her family.

Her brother, Edwin, 26, lodged a police report yesterday seeking police assistance to locate.

He said he not only feared for her safety but that she would also be sitting for her SPM exam in November.
Elizabeth Momay Donny

In his police report, Edwin said his sister left their family home in Lane 3, Jalan Kenari at about 3.30pm on Oct 7.

He believed a man had come to fetch her.

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Sabah kidnap victim returns home

A file picture of Tung Wei Jie (centre) assisted by unidentified Filipinos in Sulu province, Philippines after he escaped from his kidnappers

Chong Wei Jie, the 25-year-old plantation assistant manager who escaped his abductors in Jolo Island, Philippines has returned to his hometown in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan.

The still traumatised Wei Jie who underwent nine months in captivity arrived in Kota Kinabalu late last night and was flown back to Port Dickson after receiving treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital here.

Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib said they will let him (Wei Jie) rest and spend some time with his family before asking him to return to Sabah to assist investigations into the abduction.

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Nayati kidnap trial postponed to Tuesday for witness to testify

The trial of the men accused of kidnapping Dutch national Nayati Shamelin Moodliar has been postponed to Tuesday as the scheduled witness had to testify in a court elsewhere.

High Court judge Justice Kamardin Hashim allowed the application by deputy public prosecutor Datuk Nik Suhaimi Sulaiman to postpone the trial as the witness, DSP Zuraimi Zam Zam had gone to the High Court in Ipoh to testify in an ongoing case.

The court heard that another witness was also unable to attend as she was testifying in a case at a court outstation.

Nik Suhaimi added that the second accused, handphone seller Foong Khar Fai, 19, was also unable to be produced in court on Monday.

Foong, along with self-employed Chong Tat Siong and unemployed Lee Phak Seng, both 23, were charged on May 23 last year with kidnapping Nayati with the intent to get RM300,000 ransom.

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Neighbours’ quick action saves toddler from abduction

Concerned neighbours and their frantic SMSes saved a toddler from being kidnapped here.

A man, on the pretext of delivering fish, had rushed into the child's home in Jalan Bakariah and tied up his mother.

He snatched the year-old boy away and demanded that the family come up with a ransom for the child's release during the 10.30am incident on Tuesday.

Neighbours, who saw the man driving away with the child, took down the car's number plate and spread it among their friends via text message on their phones.

The message, written in Chinese, spread fast and even the kidnapper, apparently, got wind of the SMSes.

He aborted his plan and abandoned the boy at a hawker centre in Yong Peng, about 55km from here.

A woman trader found the child, who has yet to learn to walk, near a toilet.

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Charred remains confirmed Dirang's - Police reclassify case as murder

THE DNA samples from the charred remains found at Nusa Damai oil palm plantation on Thursday have been confirmed as that of 5-year-old Nurul Nadirah Abdullah, or Dirang.

Dirang has been missing for 13 days since March 1, after leaving her Seri Delima flats in Bandar Seri Alam here about 11am.

The remains were found about 9am in a 3.5m hole dug in the plantation, which was 3.5km away from the flats through a short-cut. The plantation is about 20km away from the main road.

Seri Alam police chief Superintendent Roslan Zainuddin said the DNA matched with the victim's mother, Roselyn Alan, 25.

"The DNA samples were from bone fragments found at the scene. The Chemistry Department had matched the DNA samples to her mother's DNA," Roslan said, adding that the remains were at the mortuary at Sultan Aminah Hospital and would be released to the family today.

"The body is believed to have been set on fire at the plantation about five days ago, eight days after she went missing."

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Shopaholic kidnappers caught

7 held and RM600,000 recovered after businessman and aide are released.THE spending spree of a gang of kidnappers was cut short when police arrested seven suspects and recovered more than RM600,000 of the RM850,000 ransom paid for the release of a businessman and his aide.

The businessman, 31, and his aide, 45, were grabbed by the kidnappers in Ijok, Kuala Selangor, on Monday afternoon.

Their families were contacted and a ransom of RM2 million was demanded for their release. After negotiations, the sum was brought down to RM850,000.

The victims were released on Tuesday night in Ayer Hitam, Ijok, after the ransom was paid.

We rescued 2 hostages in Pudu

Datuk Zaman Khan says the raid ended swiftly
One of the captured men, Ng Lai Huat, being taken to the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital after the raid. A medical check-up revealed only superficial injuries.

Datuk Zaman Khan speaking to reporters after successfully directing the rescue operation.

Two bomoh offered their services to subdue the criminals but were unsuccessful.

"I THOUGHT I was being invited to Tun Hanif Omar's house for dinner after I was summoned back from a conference in Singapore by the former inspector-general of police.

"Thinking it was a small and informal get-together, I dressed casually. Little did I realise what was in store for me.

"When I arrived at Tun Hanif's house, there was no dinner waiting for me but a group of police officers in a serious meeting with him. I was summoned to join the meeting," recalled Datuk Zaman Khan.


Zaman, who was then police director of internal security and public order, found out that he was to lead a crack team of about 30 officers to resolve the Pudu Prison hostage crisis that lasted for six days 25 years ago.

Gold fever rages on from buying , storing and kidnap ransoms.

The practice of investing in gold is slowly gaining momentum in Malaysia.

THERE'S a lot of talk about gold these days. More Malaysians are investing in the precious metal and even criminals seem to have caught on to the gold bug.

Last month, police nabbed five kidnappers in Klang who demanded 10 one-kilogram gold bars (worth RM1.44mil at that time) from the victim's family. It is believed to be the country's first-ever kidnapping case involving the use of gold bars as ransom.

More recently, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) reportedly discovered gold bars in the homes of several Customs officers during raids.

Gold ransom

A former air steward was among five kidnappers nabbed after taking delivery of 10 gold bars as ransom here on Tuesday.

Police believe it was the country’s first-ever kidnapping case involving the use of gold bars, worth RM1.44 million, as ransom.

Previous kidnapping cases only involved payment of cash in either local or foreign currency.

Selangor police raiding parties moved in on the kidnappers on Tuesday night and early yesterday after the hostage was freed unharmed.

In the swoops, police arrested the former air steward and four Nepalese men, and recovered the 10 gold bars, which weighed a kilogramme each.

Selangor police chief Datuk Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah said the kidnappers ambushed and bundled a 62-year-old security firm director into a black Isuzu fourwheel- drive vehicle behind Pulau Ketam Restaurant on Monday morning.

“They contacted the victim’s family and demanded a ransom of 10 gold bars, valued at RM144,000 each, for the safe return of the director. The family was told to drop the ransom at a location in Klang,” Tun Hisan said.

It is believed that the kidnappers had demanded gold bars instead of cash because it had no serial numbers and would have been easier to dispose of than marked notes.

The drop-off proceeded smoothly on Tuesday, with the kidnappers collecting the 10 gold bars and later freeing the hostage unharmed.

Tun Hisan said the director was released in a remote location and a passer-by gave him a lift.

A special police task force that had been monitoring the case immediately swung into action.

Three men were arrested in Jalan Pos Baru within 15 minutes of the victim’s release.

In a follow-up operation, police raided a house in Taman Sentosa where they arrested another two suspects and seized the Isuzu fourwheel- drive vehicle fitted with false K-9 stickers and a Kawasaki superbike.

Besides the 10 gold bars, police also recovered a taser gun, five mobile phones and RM45.

Initial investigations showed that the suspects did not know the victim personally, although they were familiar with his background.

The 37-year-old former air steward, who did not have any criminal record, is believed to have provided the information on the director.

It is believed that the four Nepalis, aged between 20 and 30, did not possess any valid travel documents.

The kidnap, involving ransom demands running into millions of ringgit, is the second in Peninsular Malaysia this year.

Last month, a Singaporean businessman paid a ransom of S$9 million (RM20.7 million) after his wife, daughter and maid were kidnapped in Permas Jaya, Johor.


The ransom was paid in Singapore currency by the businessman who was instructed to drop the money in Kulaijaya.

The victims were released unharmed two days later in the Danga Bay area.

It was unnerving moving from hideout to hideout, says freed hostage from Philipina Bandits.

Lai (left) and Tsen answering questions from the media at the Malaysian Embassy in Manila on Wednesday.

It was a tormenting experience for Malaysian seaweed farm manager Tsen Vui Chung, 42, and his cousin Lai Wing Chau, 33, who were held hostage by Filipino gunmen on Tawi-Tawi island in southern Philippines for 10 months.

“We run and run every day, day and night,” said Lai who was kidnapped at gunpoint together with Tsen from the seaweed platform in Pulau Sebangkat off Semporna in the east coast of Sabah on Feb 8.

“The kidnappers, sometimes numbering eight, other times 10, looked to a man named ‘Ahmad’ as their leader,” said Lai, who is a bachelor while Tsen is married with two children aged 11 and 15.

Talking about their 317-day ordeal, they told the Philippines media at the Malaysian Embassy in Manila after they were flown from Tawi-Tawi upon their release on Wednesday that they did not feel any real threat to their lives although it was quite unnerving moving from hideout to hideout at regular intervals.

Most of the gunmen spoke Tausug but a few of the abductors also spoke Malay, said Lai.

“They only gave us the name of their leader. Everybody calls him Ahmad. They did not disclose anything else,” Lai said.

He added that they just followed the bandits everywhere they went, without question. However, he said they could not recall seeing their abductors firing any shots nor did they see their guns.

“I don’t know where they put them (the guns),” said Lai, who went on to say that the kidnappers never assaulted them.

“They treated us very well,” he told the press conference in the presence of Malaysian Ambassador Datuk Seri Dr Ibrahim Saad.

“We always believed that we would be rescued, although at times I felt despair when I thought of my family,” said Lai, who lives with his parents and an elder sister in Sandakan.

Lai said that neither he nor Tsen heard their captors talking about any ransom or demands.

He also did not know if there were any negotiations that took place between the bandits and the government. He could not say for sure if the kidnappers were Filipinos but he believed they were not Malaysians.