After more than a week, an individual claiming to be the owner of a suitcase containing RM500,000 found at a shopping centre in Damansara finally came forward to give a statement.
- Individual claiming to be the bag owner is a director of a timber company
- Director has been delaying appearing at the police station
- Money allegedly was repayment for a loan given to a friend
- Director did not bring any evidence proving the money belonged to him or his company
- The man has been the only person coming forward to claim ownership of the bag of cash
Selangor police chief Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said that police recorded the statement for over an hour after the man appeared at the Damansara police station around 5pm yesterday.
In his statement, the man, who is a director of a timber company, claimed to be unaware that the suitcase containing the money taken from his friend’s apartment unit above the shopping centre in Damansara was not put into his vehicle.
The man said the suitcase was taken from his friend’s house, who wanted to return the money after borrowing it last year for investment purposes.
He added that his friend thought he had brought the suitcase, along with another bag, with him to put in the car, then went straight home and left it there overnight.
The friend only realised about the missing suitcase the next day.
Hussein said that the company director did not bring any evidence proving that the money belonged to his company when he arrived at the police station yesterday.
Investigations into the claim are still ongoing.
“The procedure after this is that he has to come to provide further statements about how he obtained that amount of money,” he said.
On March 20, a security guard found a suitcase containing cash amounting to RM500,000 left in the parking lot of a shopping centre in Damansara.
So far, only one individual has come forward claiming ownership of the suitcase containing the money. – NST