Kevin Morais ‘knew too much’ about those in power, brother claims in tussle for body

© Provided by The Malay Mail Online Brother of the late Anthony Kevin Morais, Charles Suresh Morais speaking to members of the media during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Nov 25, 2015. — Picture by Yusof Mat IsaKUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 — Deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais likely died because he knew too much about those in power, his brother Charles Suresh Morais claimed today in a signed statutory declaration (SD), amid a dispute over the deceased man’s body.

“I do not for one moment believe Kevin was killed because he was prosecuting a government pathologist for corruption,” the 52-year-old businessman said in the 18-page SD distributed to the media at his lawyer’s office here.

“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,” he added.

Speaking to the media later, Charles Suresh also said that he believes there may be a plot by “high ranking” officials against his brother Kevin, although he declined to name those he suspected were involved.

Another brother, Datuk Richard Morais, was reported as claiming Kevin’s body from the Kuala Lumpur Hospital mortuary on Monday.

Charles Suresh had on Monday filed an application for a court order for a second post-mortem, although he said today that he believed that Kevin’s body may already have been cremated.

The case management for the second post-mortem bid has been fixed for December 4.

Morais’ 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 Segambut home on September 4.