PUTRAJAYA, The amateur football player who was arrested for bringing in an offensive weapon onto a football field early this month is also found to be the ‘wanted person’ in connection with a bomb attack at an entertainment centre in Kuala Lumpur last May.
Kuala Lumpur Police Chief Datuk Rusdi Mohd Isa said the police identified the 22-year-old footballer as a suspect in the Molotov cocktail case based on investigations, recordings of witness conversations, closed-circuit camera (CCTV) recordings and identification.
The suspect will be brought to the Kuala Lumpur Court tomorrow to be charged with carrying an offensive weapon in a public place and also for committing mischief, with the charges framed under Section 6 (1) of the Corrosive and Explosive Substances and Offensive Weapons Act 1958 and Section 435 of the Penal Code, respectively, he told a press conference here today.
The press conference was held after the handing over of duties to the new Putrajaya district police chief, ACP Aidi Sham Mohamed, f
ormerly the Port Dickson police chief, by SAC A Asmadi Abdul Aziz, who has been transferred to Bukit Aman.
Source: BERNAMA News Agency