KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 24): The son of Arab-Malaysian Development Bank founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi has expressed gratitude to the police over yesterday's arrest of the prime suspect in his father's gruesome murder last July.

Pascal Najadi, 45, described the Malaysian police as a top-class security enforcement body, following its success in capturing the suspect within two months of the killing.

“I also want to thank the (Malaysian) government for making tougher laws in Malaysia to make the country safer... and the police got the suspect and it’s amazing.

"If in other countries, I’m not sure they would have caught the suspect. I’m so thankful to the Malaysian enforcement agencies,” he told Bernama in a telephone interview from Moscow, Russia today.

Hussain, 75, was gunned down by an assassin at a parking lot as he left the Kuan Yin Temple in Lorong Ceylon here on July 29, with a woman, Chong Mei Kuen, believed to be his wife. She sustained injuries in the attack.

Yesterday, the police arrested the prime murder suspect at Larut Tin Tambahan, Taiping, following information from the public.

Two men, aged 26 and 31, who were believed to have been harbouring the suspect, were also picked up.

Following his father's murder, Pascal, who holds Swiss and British citizenships, had expressed confidence that the police would solve the case.

Previously, he had said he could not return to Malaysia as he feared for his safety.

“When all this happens (the murder), on day one, day two, day three, everybody is afraid, and everybody around, advised me to stay where I am," he said.

However, after the police remanded a taxi driver who was believed to have ferried the suspected assassin a few days after the murder, it was a sign the police were doing a good job, he said.

Pascal said he fully trusted the Malaysian police to handle the case and “we have really good contact and good cooperation while I was in Moscow, Russia".

"They were updating me regularly. They were telling me to calm down, that they were taking care of things," he added.

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