Gobind Singh Deo confirms he has been hired to do a watching brief on behalf of Pascal Najadi in the appeal case of a hit man charged with murdering Najadi's father in 2013. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Nazir Sufari, July 25, 2015.
Najadi was gunned down in July 2013 at a car park in front of a Chinese temple in Kuala Lumpur. His wife, Cheong Mei Kuen, 51, was also shot but escaped with injuries to the hand and thigh.
The couple were walking towards their car at Lorong Ceylon when a gunman approached them and fired several shots.
In a statement yesterday, Pascal said he has hired the services of Gobind and Israeli criminal lawyer Nick Kaufman to review the sufficiency of the police investigation into the circumstances surrounding the assassination of his father.
Gobind when contacted today confirmed this and said he has been hired to do a watching brief on behalf of Pascal in the appeal case of the hit man, car repossessor Koong Swee Kwan who was charged with Najadi's murder.
Koong, also known as "Four Eyes", was sentenced to death by the High Court on September 5, 2014 for the murder.
He was also sentenced to 18 years' jail for attempting to murder Cheong.
"I am filing papers to the court to gain access to the documents pertinent to the case. I will have to study all the documents and records and do a watching brief on behalf of Pascal," Gobind said.
He said he would also be looking into the police investigation into the case.
"I will officially write to the police on this.”
Pascal, in the statement, said Gobind and Kaufman would determine whether the Malaysian investigating authorities have carried out their mandate in accordance with domestic and international human rights law.
Taxi driver Chew Siang Chee was also charged with possession of a pistol and bullets found in a letter box of a condominium a month after the murder.
He was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years' jail and six strokes of the rotan for possession of the bullets to be served consecutively from the day of his arrest on July 30, 2013.
Rumours were rife at the time that the motive for Najadi's murder was over a property deal that had gone sour involving the Chinese temple which Najadi had visited prior to his murder.
Pascal, however, was sceptical of the motive and told The Malaysian Insider in an interview in March that he had checked and found out that Najadi was not involved in any deals involving the temple.
"To the best of our knowledge, my father was not intending to antagonise any of the parties involved. Had my father known he posed a problem or complications, he would have stepped away," he said.
Pascal said he was upset with both the Malaysian police and Interpol for not doing enough in tracking down the suspected mastermind who had allegedly hired a gunman to kill his father.
The AmBank Group was founded in 1975 as Arab-Malaysian Development Bank by Najadi via his holding company AIAK (Arab Investments for Asia Kuwait).
He took the bank public via the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) in 1981.
- TMI
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