REMAND EXTENDED FOR FIVE SUSPECTS IN BANTING MURDERS CASE

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (Bernama) -- The remand of five of the eight suspects in
the so-called Banting murders has been extended by a week from Thursday.

Magistrate's Court registrar Ahmad Shakib Ismail allowed the extension of the
remand on the five men, in their 20's and 30's, to enable the police continue
with their investigation of the case.

Ahmad Shakib issued the order for extension of the remand at the Bukit Jalil
temporary detention centre where all the suspects are being held.

This is the third time that the remand has been extended.

The remand period for the other three suspects, two of them lawyers, ends on
Saturday.

The attorney-general on Wednesday returned the police investigation papers and
advised the police to conduct further investigation on several aspects of the
case.

The eight suspects were picked up in connection with the investigation into the
disappearance of cosmetics millionaire Sosilawati Lawiya, 47, her driver
Kamaruddin Shamsudin, 44, lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, and CIMB Bank
officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, after they had gone to Banting in the state of
Selangor over a land deal on Aug 30.

Police found out that the four people had been killed, their bodies burnt and
the ashes thrown into rivers in the vicinity of Ladang Gadong near Banting.
-- BERNAMA