‘Kevin had no link to 1MDB case’

KUALA LUMPUR: Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali (pic) has maintained that the late Deputy Public Prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais was never involved in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) case.

“Kevin was never involved in the 1MDB investigations. In fact, when he was transferred back to the Attorney-General’s Chambers in early July 2014, there was no report on 1MDB yet,” he said in a text message from Nanning, China, yesterday.

He said this in response to a statutory declaration made by Kevin’s younger brother Charles Suresh which, among others, claimed that Kevin had told him that he was working on a case involving a top politician and his wife.

Charles also claimed that his dead brother had sent him a pendrive a month before his disappearance for safekeeping.

Apandi said the claims were preposterous.

“I need to state that when the brother starts insinuating that the current accused persons are not linked to Kevin’s murder, he is seen to be interfering with the pending trial.

“So are his unfounded allegations on the post-mortem of his late brother,” added Apandi.

Charles filed an application on Monday to have a second post-mortem done on Kevin’s remains to assist in revealing a definitive cause of his death.

Apandi had on Sept 7 issued a statement that Kevin was not involved in the probe into 1MDB.

Kevin went missing on Sept 4 and his body was found in a cemented oil drum in a swamp in Subang Jaya on Sept 16.

Army pathologist Kol Dr R. Kunaseegaran and seven others have since been charged with the abduction and murder of the DPP.

In another development, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed urged Charles to make a police report with evidence to support his claims.

“He should make a report so that the police can investigate his allegations,” Nur Jazlan told reporters outside the Dewan Rakyat yesterday.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar also urged Charles to share his findings with the police, saying that failure to do so would tantamount to withholding evidence, which is an offence.