Twitter user who linked Najib, Rosmah to murders gives police statement
The social media user wanted by police for allegedly linking Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and wife to several high profile murders in the country had his statement recorded by the federal police yesterday, according to one of his friends who posted on his Facebook page. Faisal Rohban had his statement recorded at the Dang Wangi police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur at 2.30pm yesterday. It is learnt his mobile phone was confiscated by police for investigations into the case. Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar told The Malaysian Insider in a text message that Faisal was being investigated under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. Khalid on Thursday had ordered Faisal to be arrested for making a seditious comment hours after the latter’s posting on Twitter, which commented on the prime minister and his wife being allegedly involved in a few murder cases. The murders listed in the post were that of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu, AmBank founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi and deputy public prosecutor Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais, as well as the death of private investigator S. Balasubramaniam. Faisal's post alleged that these deaths were linked to Najib and wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor. But Faisal's family and friends were upset with the IGP’s instruction claiming that he was only being cynical and his post was aimed at detractors of the Malaysian leader and his wife. Several of his friends on Facebook wrote messages of support and explanations of the cynicism in the post on his page, explaining that it was satire aimed at the opposition. Faisal, in response to Khalid’s order to nab him, said he was ready to be investigated by police and thanked his friends for their support. “I would like to ask you, my friends, to not question what IGP had said. Let police investigate. Maybe there were mistakes in there (posting) that I was not aware of. I was only being cynical,” said Faisal in his posting at 4pm on Thursday. – November 29, 2015.
