Allegations that former Sarawak governor Abdul Taib Mahmud had been abducted from the hospital are absurd, said Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain.
While acknowledging police reports had been lodged by Taib's family members, he said the fact that the octogenarian is at home rules out kidnapping.
"There were reports by (Taib's) children, relatives, and lawyers alleging that the governor was abducted.
"We have opened an investigation paper, but from the hospital to his residence in Demak (Jaya), was he abducted? No.
"To say he was kidnapped doesn't make any sense at all," he said at a press conference in Petaling Jaya today.
He added that Taib's children and relatives can visit him at his home where he said there are a doctor and nurse present.
He said previous media reports on the situation are inaccurate as they did not come from official police sources, and thus should be corrected.
Police reports
Taib was reportedly being treated at the Normah Medical Specialist Centre’s intensive care unit in Kuching when his wife Raghad Kurdi Taib allegedly removed him from the hospital late Saturday evening.
According to a police report lodged by a doctor, Raghad had allegedly removed all medications attached to Taib without alerting hospital staff.
He was then put in a wheelchair and brought out of the hospital.
A second police report by another family member of Taib’s was reportedly lodged on Sunday based on the first report.
According to the second police report, none of Taib’s siblings or four children was made aware of his whereabouts and health condition.
Following this, Raghad issued a statement on Instagram denying that she took her husband out of hospital against doctors' advice.
She claimed to have proof in the form of a handwritten nurse's note.
She later alleged that she was the target of malicious slander which sought to tarnish her image.
Raghad also denied accusations that she was planning to flee the country.
Last year, one of Taib's sons Sulaiman Abdul Rahman filed an injunction seeking to prevent shares in a private company from being transferred to Raghad.
Taib served as Sarawak’s fourth chief minister from 1981 before being appointed as Sarawak’s seventh governor in 2014. He was supposed to remain in office until the end of this month.
However, his term as governor was cut short with the appointment of former Senate president Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar last month. - Mkini
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