No new probe despite cops’ interview with Pannir Selvam, says home ministry
The home ministry has confirmed there is no new investigation following the Malaysian police’s interview with death row inmate P Pannir Selvam at Changi prison, in Singapore, last month.
Deputy home minister Shamsul Anuar Nasarah said police interviewed Pannir for about four hours on Sept 27.
“The information provided by the subject had no operational value for the police to conduct further investigations,” he said in a special chamber session in Parliament.
He said police had earlier investigated three people named by Pannir and his family but found no link.
“The ministry found there was no room to pursue the case further.”
Shamsul said Malaysia respected Singapore’s laws and that its courts had found drugs taped to Pannir’s leg and hidden in his motorcycle, showing he was not just a courier.
