Cops Raid Najib’s Alleged ‘Safe House’ in Putrajaya

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Carted away cardboard boxes, several cops guarding the premises.

About a dozen plainclothes police officers raided a double-storey bungalow in Precinct 10, Putrajaya, believed to be in connection with the 1MDB case.

Residents of Precinct 10 are mainly senior government and ministers.

The officers, from the Bukit Aman Commercial Crime department, arrived at the house at around noon.

Three Proton Preve bearing the Royal Malaysian Police insignia and commonly used by police investigators were parked outside the house.

Several cardboard boxes were seen removed from the house at about 2.20pm and put into a white van which bore no police credentials. Instead, it bore a pest control company logo.

The house is only 200 metres from Seri Perdana and belongs to the Property management Division of the Prime Minister’s Department.

An online portal described it allegedly as Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s “safe house”.

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The raiding team left at 3.10pm, with about five police officers left behind to guard the house.

According to the Malay Mail, a neighbour who declined to be named said the last occupant of the house was Tan Sri Mohd Shukry Salleh, Najib’s former private secretary who was appointed Bank Rakyat chairman in January 2017.

The house appears to have been unoccupied for a long time, judging from the unkempt lawn.

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It also appears to have been used as a storehouse, based on the stacks of boxes kept inside that were seen even from the roadside.