KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 8 — The High Court was told that the police found a Palestinian man with his hands and feet bound with cable ties during a raid on a chalet room in Hulu Langat nearly three years ago.
ASP Mohamad Jazlan Sharif, 42, who is now with the Criminal Investigation Division (Operations and Intelligence) at the Dang Wangi district police headquarters (IPD), said he and a team from the Dang Wangi and Kuala Lumpur police' Criminal Investigation Division (D9) went to the scene on September 29, 2022.
“During the raid at Room 112, two men (Muhammad Iqmal Abdul Rahis and Mohamad Sufian Saly) suddenly ran out of the room towards the roof, but my team and I managed to apprehend them after a brief struggle.
“We then found a man inside the room with his hands and feet bound with cable ties. We freed him and asked for his identification documents, which revealed that he was a Palestinian,” he said during the examination-in-chief by Deputy Public Prosecutor Mohd Sabri Othman today.
Jazlan was reading his witness statement at the trial of the kidnapping of a Palestinian man faced by eight accused: Tengku Arif Bongsu Tengku Hamid, 44; Mohamad Naziree Mustapha, 44; Faizull Hardey Mohd Isa, 45; Muhammad Iqmal Abdul Rahis, 30; Mohd Zaidi Mohd Zain, 59; Nidarahayu Zainal, 39; Raibafie Amdan, 44; and Edy Ko'im Said, 45.
The police officer, the third prosecution witness, said they also raided Room 110, where they found three men — Tengku Arif, Naziree, and Faizull — along with 36 black cable ties in a transparent plastic bag.
He added that the raid followed the arrest of Mohamad Norakmal Hassan on the same day (Sept 22).
Norakmal and five others had been charged with a similar offence — abducting and unlawfully detaining a Palestinian man — and were sentenced to five years’ jail each after they pleaded guilty to the charge.
The five individuals charged with him are Mohd Azwan Jamaludin, 42; Dody Junaidi, 47; Mohamad Sufian Saly, 28; Tengku Hazarul Ismail Tengku Hamid, 54; and Muhammad Al Hatim Mohd Fauzi, 28.
The trial before Judge K. Muniandy continues on August 12.
According to the charge, the eight accused were jointly charged with wrongfully confining a 31-year-old victim to obtain a reward, specifically, secret information on creating and deactivating computer software used to hack mobile phones.
They are alleged to have committed the offence at Jalan Mayang at 10.40pm on September 28, 2022, under Section 3 of the Kidnapping Act 1961, read together with Section 34 of the Penal Code. If convicted, the offence carries a prison sentence of between 30 and 40 years and whipping.
Meanwhile, Tengku Arif, Nidarahayu, and Nidarahayu's husband Raibafie are also facing 19 additional charges under Section 4(1)(b) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing, and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001, involving over RM250,000.
