KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has sentenced tow truck driver Koong Swee Kwan (pic) to death for the murder of Arab Malay-sian Development Bank founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi in 2013, after a retrial. Judicial Commissioner Ab Karim Ab Rahman also sentenced him to 18 years in jail for the attempted murder of Najadi’s wife, Cheong Mei Kuen, 53.
He handed down the sentences after the defence failed to raise reasonable doubt in the case.
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