Malaysia Crime Watch

17 March 2008
Johor Baru

A 17-year-old girl was robbed and raped during a family outing to the Gunung Pulai waterfalls on Saturday at 2:30pm.

The victim’s parents and two siblings were swimming when she went off to change into her swimwear. Three men in their 20s suddenly appeared and dragged her to some bushes nearby where she was raped by one of them. The other two suspects watched and took her belongings.

The girl managed to scream for help and her family members managed to rush over and detained two of the suspects while the rapist got away.

A police report was made at the Kulai Jaya police station and the girl was sent to Kulai Hospital for a medical examination. Police are now looking for the rapist.

The Star Online – 17-year-old raped and robbed during family outing
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/17/nation/20666218&sec=nation>

New Straits Times – Girl raped while at waterfall with family
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/2188675/Article/index_html>

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17 March 2008
Ipoh

A 55-year-old man was arrested at his foreign worker outsourcing company office yesterday at 10:30am by Immigration Department officials for possessing 99 passports belonging to 89 Myanmar and 10 Bangladeshi immigrants.

As the suspect was not the employer of the immigrants, it is an offence to manage the documents of the foreign workers on behalf of five outsourcing companies.

It is believed that he had also issued Burma Refugees Organisation (BRO) cards to the foreign immigrants, which are not recognized by the Immigration Department as valid work permits here.

Officials have shut down the operations of the five outsourcing companies and arrested three Myanmar workers and eight factory workers for possessing fake MyKads in Kamunting on 13 March 2008.

The Star Online – Man held with 99 passports
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/17/nation/20667350&sec=nation>

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17 March 2008
Kuala Lumpur

Police have intensified their search for missing 11-year-old Muhammad Asmawi Jalaludin with the distribution of 2,000 posters to police stations in the Klang Valley and conducting a house-to-house search around Lembah Pantai.

Asmawi has been missing since 9 March 2008 when he was returning home in Pantai Permai, Pantai Dalam, from a playground 200m away.

His elder sister Saudah, aged 30, was brought to Mid Valley Megamall by the police to view closed-circuit television camera footage yesterday. Three of Asmawi’s friends claimed to have last seen him at the mall on Wednesday. The trio were brought to the Federal Police Sexual Abuse and Child Investigation Division (D11) in Bukit Aman to be interviewed. None of them were able to identify Asmawi in the footage.

For a photograph of Asmawi and the area where he was missing, please refer to the related MCW Forum thread.

The Star Online – House-to-house search for missing boy
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/17/nation/20080317154624&sec=nation>

New Straits Times – Police widen search for missing schoolboy
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/2188612/Article/index_html>

MCW – Missing Person: 11-year-old Asmawi Jalaludin
<URL:http://malaysiacrimewatch.lokety.com/missing-person-11-year-old-asmawi-jalaludin/>

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