Kevin Morais did not handle 1MDB case, says brother

  

The late deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais did not handle the 1MDB case, said his youngest brother Richard Morais at the High Court in Kuala Lumpur today.

Richard, 50, said this when cross-examined by defence counsel N Sivananthan, who is representing doctor and army pathologist, Colonel Dr R Kunaseegaran regarding Kevin Morais’s involvement in the 1MDB case.

“No... he didn’t handle the 1MDB case. I found out about the case from my investigation in newspapers,” he testified in the first day of the trial of Kunaseegaran before judge Azman Abdullah.

When asked by Sivananthan whether his brother was the DPP who had prosecuted many people including his client at the Shah Alam Sessions Court, Richard replied he heard from the police that an argument happened between Kevin Morais and the accused (Kunaseegaran) two days prior to the missing of his brother.

Sivananthan: Were you aware that police went to court and obtained all CCTVs but could not find any incident between my client and your brother?

Richard: No, I don’t remember

Sivanantahan: Are you assuming the guilt of my client because he is sitting in the dock?

Richard: Yes

Questioned about the second post-morterm on Kevin Morais’s body, Richard said: “Charles (second brother) wanted to do a second post-mortem, I agreed. But he was misleading and dragging, made me do it myself.”

“He was misleading everybody and I just went by it. I was happy with the government,” said Richard, who was the first prosecution witness.

According to him, he trusted the result of the first post-mortem and trusted the government in handling the case since the first day of the investigation.

He also said that he did not know about Kevin Morais’s involvement in the Criminal Breach Trust case of former Sime Darby chief executive officer Ahmad Zubir Mursyid when asked by another defence counsel, M Manoharan.

[More to follow]

- Bernama