The family of Ivana Smit, who died at a Kuala Lumpur apartment in 2017, has appealed for Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s help to remove her case’s investigating officer from a task force that reopened the probe into her death.

In a letter to the PM yesterday, the deceased’s mother Christina Carolina Gerarda Johanna Verstappen sought to remove assistant superintendent Faizal Abdullah from the task force.

The family’s lawyer, Sankara Nair, pointed out that...