SUBANG JAYA, Sept 16 ― Police today believe they have found deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais who has been missing the last 13 days, following the discovery of a body hidden in a cement-filled oil drum here earlier this morning.

Bukit Aman CID director Datuk Seri Mohmad Salleh said they were led to the storm drain in the suburb where the oil drum was dumped by a man they believe is connected to Morais' abduction.

The suspect was among five men, aged between 22 and 52, who were arrested yesterday.

Mohmad added that there is a likelihood that the abduction had to do with revenge, as it is understood that Morais was prosecuting a corruption case of a military doctor.

“The doctor is the 52-year-old arrested... he is one of the suspects,” Mohmad said at a news conference at the crime scene.

Mohmad avoided naming the suspect, but said the man is linked to a recent graft case heard in a Shah Alam court involving a doctor working at a military hospital in Kuala Lumpur.

Aside from the five suspects ― who were arrested in Rawang and Kuala Lumpur ― police also confiscated a Mitsubishi Triton, one Honda Accord, a Proton Persona and a receipt from Penang for the purchase of cement and other materials needed to make concrete.

The Triton is believed to have been used to ram Morais' government-issue car on September 4, a day before he was reported missing by his older brother.

A total of RM32,100 in cash was also seized, which Mohmad said could be payment made to the other suspects to carry out Morais' abduction.

Police also detained a woman and a child in the operation, but Mohmad said they do not believe the two are involved.

He noted that they cannot verify the condition of the body as it was still wrapped in a gunny sack, adding that they expect it to be properly identified by the pathologist at Hospital Kuala Lumpur during the post mortem scheduled for 2pm today.

Mohmad stressed that the arrests and evidence gathered in the police's investigation disproved speculation that Morais' disappearance had to do with the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) fiasco or the 2013 murder of Arab-Malaysian Development Bank (AmBank) founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi.

“What is important is that this case is settled,” Mohmad said, adding that they expect to make several more arrests in connection to the case.

Morais was last seen on September 4 leaving his Menara Duta condominium in Segambut for his office at the Attorney-General’s Chambers in Putrajaya and the government lawyer’s elder brother filed a missing person’s report the next day.

The police are still probing a burnt car that was found on September 6 at an oil palm plantation in Hutan Melintang for links to Morais case.

The burnt car was said to resemble the make of the government-issued grey Proton Perdana car which Morais was last seen in when leaving his condominium on the morning of September 4.

Last Wednesday, police confirmed that the mysterious disappearance of Morais had been reclassified as an abduction case, saying that the abduction probe under Section 365 of the Penal Code was based on a new lead from close-circuit (CCTV) recordings of major roads from Kuala Lumpur to Perak’s Hutan Melintang area.

Morais, 55, was seconded to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission nearly 10 years ago to aid its prosecution division, but returned to the Attorney-General’s Chambers in July as deputy head of its appellate and trial division.

Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali has previously denied Morais was involved in any government probe on controversial state investment firm 1Malaysia Development Berhad.