Malaysia Crime Watch

28 March 2008
Kuching

Samariang assemblyman Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali’s house along Jalan Indoor Stadium was robbed by six armed robbers on Thursday night. The robbers were brandishing a pistol and knives and wearing masks when they entered the house at 8pm.

Sharifah Hasidah was out attending a function when the robbers confronted her husband Sayeed Mohamad Hussein Wan Abdul Rahman, sisters Sharifah Noraini and Sharifah Rodziah, six children and two maids. The victims were tied up except for a 2-week-old baby and a 3-year-old girl.

Sharifah Noraini was brought to the master bedroom where she was forced to open a safe. The robbers managed to take RM30,000 worth of jewellery from the safe.

A laptop, several mobile phones, RM1,000 cash and three sets of car keys were also taken. The robbers then locked the victims in a room and make their getaway.

Police believe that the robbers were foreigners.

The Star Online – Assemblyman’s house robbed in Kuching
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/28/nation/20080328141616&sec=nation>

The Star Online – Robbers strike at rep’s house
<URL:http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/29/nation/20784832&sec=nation>

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27 March 2008
Shah Alam

ASP Tonny Lunggan continued his testimony in the High Court murder trial of Altantuya Shaariibuu yesterday, saying that he started handling the murder case from 31 October 2006.

The 29-year-old investigating officer attended a meeting at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters relating to the Mongolian woman’s abduction. The next day, he brought Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri to the headquarters for investigations.

Private investigator P. Balasubramaniam positively identified Azilah during an identification parade on 1 November 2006 as the person who had taken Altantuya from outside the home of Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda in Bukit Damansara on the night Altantuya was murdered. Azilah was with another “unidentified man”, said Tonny, who is believed to be Balasubramaniam.

After his arrest, Azilah was ordered to surrender two mobile phones and SIM cards. On the same day, Lance Corporal Rohaniza Roslan was arrested and a mobile phone was seized from her.

The hearing continues today.

The Star Online – Tough time handling case
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/27/courts/20765221&sec=courts>

New Straits Times – Altantuya Murder Trial: ‘Azilah took Altantuya from Razak’s house’
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Thursday/National/2197022/Article/index_html>

MCW – Altantuya Murder Trial: Razak was Threatened by PI
<URL:http://malaysiacrimewatch.lokety.com/altantuya-murder-trial-razak-was-threatened-by-pi/>

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27 March 2008
Putrajaya

16 foreign women have been rescued by the Immigration Department from the clutches of a human trafficking syndicate in two operations in Seremban and Johor Baru. Three members of the syndicate in their 30s have been arrested and remanded for between 4 and 14 days under the Anti-Trafficking In Persons Act 2007 came into effect from January 2008.

The women, believed to have been forced into prostitution, consisted of four Chinese nationals, two Vietnamese, seven Thais and three Laotians. They have been sent to a shelter house run by the Women’s Development Department.

If convicted, the three suspects face a jail term of between 3 to 20 years and a fine.

The Star Online – Immigration Department saves 16 trafficked women
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/27/nation/20763298&sec=nation>

New Straits Times – 16 women rescued in vice raids
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Thursday/National/2197040/Article/index_html>

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