Death threat claim involving Cradle Fund CEO non-issue
SUNGAI BULOH: Police have investigated the claim that the late Cradle Fund chief executive officer Nazrin Hassan received a death threat via a phone call three months before he was found dead at his home in Petaling Jaya.
State police chief Datuk Mazlan Mansor confirmed that there was a report on the threat and an investigation revealed that the phone call was made by a close relative.
“We have investigated this matter but it is not part of the murder investigation at the moment.
“Nazrin had also withdrawn the report,” he said after attending the Sungai Buloh police chief handover of duties ceremony yesterday.
On the second post-mortem on Nazrin, Mazlan said he was waiting for the results, which was being prepared by Universiti Malaya Medical Centre medical officers.
“It might take longer for the report to be completed. We don’t want to rush them. Let them refine the report and make it perfect,” he said.
On Oct 8, Nazrin’s body was exhumed from the Kota Damansara Muslim cemetery in Seksyen 9 for a second postmortem after the Court of Appeal dismissed the application by Nazrin’s widow, Samirah Muzaffar, to postpone it.
The three-panel judge led by Datuk Mohtarudin Baki unanimously made the decision after rejecting the appeal by Samirah, 43, and retained the Shah Alam High Court’s order to give the authority to police to conduct the second post-mortem to identify Nazrin’s cause of death.
His death was reclassified as murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code after traces of petrol were found on his head, bedframe and mobile phone.