Former NSC DG Zolkples passes away at 62


Will be missed: File photo of Datuk Seri Zolkples Embong during at the press conference after the KL SEA Games chef-de-mission seminar at Mandarin Oriental hotel in Kuala Lumpur in 2017.

PETALING JAYA: Former National Sports Council (NSC) director general Datuk Seri Zolkples Embong has passed away this morning. He was 62.

Zolkples was reportedly found dead at his home in Pandan Indah, but the cause of death is not immediately known yet, said a statement released by the NSC earlier today (Sunday).

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