KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 — Charles Suresh Morais’ claims of a conspiracy may constitute interference in the ongoing trial over the murder of his brother Anthony Kevin Morais, Attorney-General (AG) Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali said today.
Apandi was responding to Charles Suresh’s claims made during a press conference and in a statutory declaration signed yesterday that the late deputy public prosecutor’s death may have been part of a plot involving senior government officials.
“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,” Apandi was quoted as saying in a text message to news portal The Malaysian Insider.
In the 18-page declaration made available to the media, Charles Suresh claimed that he did not “believe Kevin was killed because he was prosecuting a government pathologist for corruption.”
He further asserted that the pathologist in question would have known that killing the DPP would not have benefitted his own case.
“Kevin was killed for other reasons and I believe these other motives were due to the fact that he knew too much about the criminal acts of those high up in the echelons of power in Malaysia and he needed to be silenced because of that,” Charles stated in the SD.
Apandi reportedly dismissed the claim earlier today, insisting that the deputy public prosecutor was not in any way involved in investigations into 1Malaysia Development Bhd and related entities as previously alleged.
Kevin, who was seconded to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission nearly 10 years ago, held the post of deputy head of the appellate and trial division in the Attorney-General’s Chambers at the time of his death.
His body was found hidden in a cement-filled oil drum in Subang Jaya 13 days after he was abducted en route to his Putrajaya office from his home on September 4.
Charles Suresh had on Monday filed an application for a court order for a second post-mortem, although he said yesterday that he believed that Kevin’s body may already have been cremated after it was collected without his knowledge by another brother Datuk Richard Morais from the Kuala Lumpur Hospital mortuary.
Charles Suresh told reporters that he was merely trying to aid authorities by seeking a second opinion, claiming that the first post-mortem report allegedly only had one line that said Kevin’s probable cause of death was “asphyxiation” or suffocation despite the lack of marks on the body to suggest strangulation.
The case management for the second post-mortem bid has been fixed for December 4.
