Datuk Lawyer May Be Linked To At Least 17 Murders

The main suspects in the murders of Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others could be linked to at least 17 killings over the past years.

This shocking revelation came about after police combed through earlier reports linking murders and missing persons to the suspects, who are two lawyer brothers.

The New Straits Times learnt that the police and the Attorney-General’s Chambers have already met several times as the investigations into the suspects widened.

It is, however, learnt that the investigations are being hampered as the bodies of the victims cannot be traced.

Police are now working overtime searching riverbeds and streams in and around Banting in the hope of retrieving skeletal remains or personal effects of the victims.

To date, after investigations into the quadruple murder began, police have retrieved human bones, a watch and two knives. The bones will be subjected to DNA tests to ascertain the identities.

Police, however, are camped here, conducting investigations at the suspect’s poultry farm in Sungai Gadung, near Tanjung Sepat, and in the waterways.

Yesterday, police also seized several computer hard drives and documents from the suspect’s law firm here.

Later in the evening, a team of policemen took one of the suspects to the Angsana flats in USJ 1, Subang Jaya, where they found an object in some bushes.

The policemen seemed excited and were seen giving each other high fives before taking the suspect away.

It was at the car park of Angsana flat that Sosilawati’s BMW X5 was found on Sept 6.

At a press conference on Sunday afternoon, Federal Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk Seri Bakri Zinin, in announcing the arrest of the two lawyers, one of whom is a Datuk, and six others, had also said they were looking at cases of four other missing people.

The New Straits Times yesterday learnt that one of them is a housewife, T. Selvi, who was murdered here last year.

The other three were an Indian businessman and two locals.

Details of the other victims, which have now come on the police radar, are not known yet.

Cosmetics queen Sosilawati, her lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, CIMB Bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, and driver Kamarudin Shansudin, 44, were believed to have been murdered on Aug 30 and their remains burnt.

The ashes and bones of the four were taken to various streams and rivers in Sungai Gadung and scattered.

Sosilawati, 47, the founder of the Nouvelles Visages beauty line, had arranged to meet the 41-year-old in Banting on Aug 30 over a land deal.

Sosilawati and her companionswere allegedly taken to the farm where they were murdered.

Meanwhile, Bernama reports that relatives of Sosilawati and her three companions are expected to provide samples for DNA extraction at the Kuala
Lumpur Hospital.

Yesterday, Sosilawati’s daughter and Noorhisham’s mother Satinah Mokhtar were at the hospital for that purpose.