BAU: A 28-year-old man here has been arrested and placed on seven-day remand to facilitate investigation into the discovery of a dead body inside a locked luggage found afloat in a river at Kampung Pangkalan Baik on Friday night.
Court Registrar Aida Montong granted the police investigation officer’s application to detain the suspect to facilitate investigation under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The remand order expires on July 27.
State CID chief SAC Denis Leong when contacted confirmed the arrest saying, “Yes, one arrest has been made and he will be remanded today (yesterday) for further investigation.
“I would like to state here that we are still waiting to positively identify the body in the bag,” Leong said.
The man was taken into custody as a person of interest by the police after he reportedly visited the One Stop Centre police station in Kuching District Police Station on the night itself (Friday) to assist in the police in their investigation.
During the interrogation, it was found that the man was the last person to be in the same car as the victim before the latter went missing and was subsequently arrested following the interrogation.
As such, the remains clad in a black shirt and brown pants has been identified by his wife through the victim’s shirt, pants, belt, socks and shoes at the Sarawak General Hospital mortuary on the same night (Friday).
It is believed that the victim is the owner of a tailor shop operating at Tun Jugah Mall.
On Wednesday, a woman (the victim’s wife) from Jalan Green here lodged a police report that her husband had been missing from a shopping complex in Jalan Tun Jugah.
She said after her relative requested for the supermarket’s CCTV, footage showed her husband surnamed Wong went into his Lexus car with two men following at 2pm on Tuesday. The car was also missing.
Since then, her husband had gone missing and calls made to him went unanswered.
