Update: The police have found and arrested the escapees. They are now currently being held at the Kulai district police headquarters pending further investigation.
Two Indonesians who were being transported from the Kota Tinggi court to Ledang Prison to serve their sentence for illegal entry into Malaysia have escaped, prompting a manhunt by the police.
Kulai police chief, Tok Beng Yeow, has identified the escapees as Riki Rinaldi, aged 40, and Samirudin, aged 36.
Bernama reported that the two, along with two other Indonesian nationals, were found guilty by the Kota Tinggi Court for violating Section 5(2) of the Immigration Act 1959/63 and were to serve a six-month prison sentence in Ledang Prison.
They were apprehended by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Officers for entering Malaysia without valid travel documents and were taken to the Kota Tinggi court to face charges.
“At about 11:20am yesterday, three maritime members were assigned to bring them to Ledang Prison to serve the jail sentence.
“During the journey, two of them managed to break the chain that tied them together and opened the rear door of the vehicle before fleeing into an abandoned oil palm plantation at Jalan Felda Inas,” he said in a statement today.
He urged the public with information on the two men to contact the Kulai police operations room at 07-6637222.
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