Pascal Najadi, son of murdered Ambank founder Hussain Najadi, is taking his father's assassination case to the United Nations (UN) after expressing a loss of faith in the Malaysian judicial system.
"Our legal expert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian MP Gobind Singh Deo, has advised us that it would be futile to continue pushing through Malaysian courts, the Attorney-General's Chambers, for a proper investigation into the assassination of Hussain Najadi.
"We therefore have decided together with our international criminal lawyer Nick Kaufman to take this case to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland," Pascal said in a statement today.
Nick Kaufman is an international criminal lawyer and former prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Pascal insisted that there has been a cover-up in the murder of his father.
"All the signals that we have received so far from Malaysia give us strong reasons to believe that there is a state-sponsored cover-up.
"The attorney-general and the police have white-washed (covered up), after two years, the alleged mastermind and Interpol red notice (for wanted Lim Yuen Soo), without sharing any information on his arrest," said Pascal.
Hussain, 76, died, while his wife was seriously injured after being shot when they emerged from the Kuan Yin Temple in Lorong Ceylon in Kuala Lumpur on July 29, 2013.
The shooter, Kong Swee Kuan, was sentenced to death in 2014 for the murder.
Lim was believed to have hired Kong for the hit, and was put on the Interpol red list after it was found he fled the country.
He was finally arrested by police in October last year when he returned to the country but was released after eight days of detention on grounds that there was insufficient evidence.
