SHAH ALAM: The High Court here was told today that the widow of Cradle Fund chief executive Nazrin Hassan did not co-operate at the beginning of an investigation by the Energy Commission.
This was because she was informed that the investigation into the case only involved the Fire and Rescue Department and police.
Defence counsel Rahmat Hazlan said the widow, Samirah Muzaffar, who was also the first accused in the Nazrin murder case, was informed thus by the JBPM officer, Hafisham Mohd Noor.
“In the testimony of the previous witness you told, Samirah did not co-operate and refused to allow you to enter the house on June 19, 2018 to investigate a fire that occurred in the house, and asked you to contact Hafisham,” he said.
He said this during a cross-examination of the 30th witness, Energy Commission assistant director Abdul Rahim Wan Chik before Judge Ab Karim Ab Rahman.
Rahim said he had contacted Hafisham and was told that the JBPM had no problem allowing the commission to conduct an investigation at the house. “I only received a call from Samirah on June 21 (2018) to choose a suitable date to come to investigate,” he said.
He said Samirah had given full co-operation to the investigation team during the investigation conducted on the wiring system of the house on June 27, 2018.
Samirah, a former senior executive at the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia, and two teenagers, aged 17 and 14, respectively, have been charged, along with an Indonesian who is still at large, Eka Wahyu Lestari, with killing the victim.
They were charged with committing the act at a house in Mutiara Damansara between 11.30pm on June 13, 2018 and 4am on June 14, 2018.
The trial continues tomorrow.