Malaysian authorities are investigating whether Israel’s spy agency was involved in the kidnapping of a Palestinian in Kuala Lumpur in late September, a senior police official said Wednesday.
Eleven Malaysians were charged in court last week over the abduction after police raided a chalet and rescued the computer programmer, whose captors allegedly beat and interrogated him for 24 hours.
On Wednesday, police questioned the editor of the New Straits Times newspaper, which had exclusively reported the alleged connection to Mossad a day earlier, leading officials in Gaza to publicly thank Malaysian authorities.
“We are investigating the Mossad element in the kidnapping case. We have yet to confirm the agency’s involvement,” Kuala Lumpur Police Chief Azmi Abu Kassim told reporters.
Azmi was referring to a report by the New Straits Times where it claimed the Israeli spy agency was behind the abduction of a Palestinian in Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 28.
It reported that Omar Z.M. Albelbaisy Raeda, 31, was kidnapped by a group of people who allegedly wanted to obtain information about a software used to hack mobile phones.
The New Straits Times report alleges that Raeda was blindfolded and forced into a white vehicle before being taken to a chalet. Once at the destination, he was bound to a chair where he was “interrogated and beaten by the Malaysian operatives when his answers were not to the Israelis’ satisfaction.”
Since the story broke, Malaysian media have reported that police arrested 11 suspects. These include a woman who appeared at the Kuala Lumpur Magistrate Court on Oct. 14, where the suspects were charged with kidnapping…BenarNews
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