Kevin Morais body found, military doctor among 7 arrested

Kevin Anthony Morais was murdered after human remains were found in a concrete-filled drum in USJ1, Subang Jaya, 12 days after he went missing.

Police also confirmed that seven people, including a military doctor, were arrested yesterday.

Federal CID director Datuk Seri Mohmad Salleh said that the main suspect had led police to the swampy area, where the drum, containing Morais’s body, was dumped.

“We believe it has to do with a case in the Shah Alam court that Morais was involved in. The suspect was involved in a corruption case that Morais was prosecuting,” he said at the scene today.

Morais, who was attached with the Attorney-General's Chambers, was reported missing on September 4 after he left his Menara Duta residence for work.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar had said last week that police had reclassified the case from a missing person report to abduction based on footage from closed-circuit television camera (CCTV) obtained in Kuala Lumpur.

The footage showed Morais's car being rammed by another car along a road in the city before being taken away by several men.

Mohmad said today that police found the body after breaking open the barrel filled with cement with the help of the Fire and Rescue Department.

“The body, which was stuffed in a gunny sack, has been sent to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for a post-mortem, which will be done at 2pm.”

The detainees include a woman and a child, but Mohmad said they were not directly involved in the case but were picked up along with seven others.

“Only one had a criminal record,” he said, adding that they were arrested around Rawang and the Klang Valley.

The CID director also said that initial investigations showed that the main suspect had hired the others detained to carry out the abduction.

Police also seized RM17,000, a Honda Accord and a Mitsubishi Triton, which was used to hit Morais's car when he was abducted, in Penang.

A Proton Persona, RM15,000 and hardware used to stuff the body into the barrel were seized in Kuala Lumpur.

The military doctor, a colonel in his 50s, attached with the pathology lab at Hospital Angkatan Tentera Tuanku Mizan, was charged with unlawful trade in December 2013.

Morais was the DPP in the case.

In September last year, the doctor, who was on an RM100,000 bail, had claimed trial to two bribery charges involving RM700,000 for allegedly recommending three companies to supply medicine and disposable medical tools to the hospital.