Bank founder latest victim in spate of Malaysian shootings
The Founder of Arab Malaysian Bank, Hussain Ahmad Najadi, was walking to his car with his wife amid the lunch-hour crowd in the heart of Kuala Lumpur after negotiating a land deal at the nearby Kuan Yin temple.
The 75-year-old did not know that three killers were waiting for him. One of them opened fire, hitting him in the chest and lower abdomen. He died on the spot. His 49-year-old Malaysian wife, Cheong Mei Kuen, was wounded in the arm.
The assailants fled in a taxi.
“We believe three men were responsible for the attack,” said regional police Assistant Commissioner Zainuddin Ahmad.
“We are confident the culprits will be brought to justice as soon as possible,” he said.
Najadi’s son Pascal, speaking by phone from Moscow, said he was shocked by the killing in broad daylight. “How could this happen in the nation’s capital?
“This is not the Malaysia my father knew and loved, and the whole world will be watching to see how the authorities handle this case,” he said.
A waiter at one of the stalls nearby said he was serving customers at about 1.50pm when the shooting occurred.
“I did not hear any loud sound or notice anything unusual.
“I was busy serving our usual lunch-hour crowd,” said the 45-year-old, who only realised there had been a shooting when police cars drew up with their sirens on.
The shooting on Jalan Ceylon comes on the heels of several shooting attacks in Peninsular Malaysia over the past week.
On Saturday, Malaysian crime watchdog MyWatch chairman R Sri Sanjeevan was shot by a man on a motorcycle in Bahau, Negri Sembilan.
On Sunday, Jasrafveen-deerjeet Singh from Tambun, Perak, was shot dead outside a restaurant in Ipoh.
