A Pakistani, one of the suspected key players behind the theft of RM110,000 from the bank accounts of four MH370 victims, was presumably so loaded off his ill-gotten gains that he never even bothered to chase his actual employer for overdue salary cheques.
Ali Farran, in his 30s, who worked as a mechanic in Kampung Pandan, is suspected by police as the owner of the account used to hold RM35,000 of the money stolen from the MH370 victims’ accounts.
The people he used to work with said that despite not being paid a salary for several months, Ali had no monetary problems.
“He worked for us for a year but when we were unable to pay his salary for months, he continued working and told us money was not an issue for him,” a fellow mechanic told Thasha Jayamanogaran and G Prakash of The Malay Mail Online, on condition of anonymity.
Ali’s employers at Muda Motor Sdn Bhd in Kampung Pandan told police that he had been missing from work for more than six months.
His last known address was at No 2B, Lorong Kemajuan, Kampung Pandan, where he lived with his wife and child, but neighbours say he moved out in June.
Kuala Lumpur Commercial Criminal Investigation Department (CCID) chief ACP Izany Abdul Ghany said he was confident Ali would be apprehended, as police believe he was still in Malaysia.
“We have recorded the statements of six people including the bank manager. Investigations are still under way to find out the relationship between the detained bank officer and the Pakistani,” he said.
The 33-year-old bank officer, who was arrested on Thursday, had been working in the bank for 10 years. She was picked up by the police from her house in Sarjana Ampang.
Her mechanic husband, also 33, was arrested at a workshop in Pandan Indah.
The suspects had made unauthorised transfers of funds from the accounts of three MH370 passengers into the account of a fourth victim.
The suspects then made an internet transfer of RM35,000 to another account, believed to be that of one of the suspects, two weeks prior to July 18 and made ATM withdrawals of RM5,000 daily until the account was empty.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. While no trace of the jetliner has yet been found, investigators believe the aircraft crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean, and that none of the 239 people on board had survived.
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