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Updated: Cradle CEO’s Wife, Stepsons, Maid to be Charged with Murder

March 4, 2019

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Updated: Nazrin’s widow and two stepsons were charged with murder which carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction. All three, including the boys clad in school uniforms, agreed they understood the charge read against them. No plea was recorded from any of the accused and no bail was offered.

The trio was jointly charged together with Eka Wahyu Lestari, a maid who is still at large and believed to have returned to Indonesia.

DPP Jamal Arifin applied for the case to be transferred to the High Court, which was approved by magistrate Mohamad Ikhwan Mohd Nasir.

No date has been fixed yet

Nasir placed a gag order on the identity of the two boys.

Prominent thinker Chandra Muzaffar, the father of Nazrin’s widow, was also present in court today.

Arrested nine months after mysterious death in June.

The wife of Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan and two teenagers are expected to be charged with murder on Monday (March 4).

Selangor CID chief Senior Asst Comm Fadzil Ahmat said Samirah Muzaffar, 45, and the two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, were detained at their home at about 6.45am on Monday.

“They are expected to be charged at the Petaling Jaya Magistrate’s Court at 2pm today,” he said.

The trio was arrested under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder.

It is learned that the family’s maid is also involved in the case.

Samirah is the daughter of prominent thinker Chandra Muzaffar.

Nazrin, 45, died in a fire at his double-storey house on June 14, 2018.

On Oct 8, Nazrin’s remains were exhumed for a second post-mortem.

Pathologists at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre are in the midst of preparing the full report on the second post-mortem.

Several people have since been remanded and released in the murder investigation, including Nazrin’s widow, her two teenage sons, her ex-husband, and a married couple related to the widow.