A Briton has been found dead, with his hands and feet bound, in a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur.

The official Bernama news agency quoted police as saying that the man whose body was found by hotel staff on Tuesday evening had a British Airways employee's pass.

"The 20-something man was found dead with the hands tied with a scarf while the feet were tied with jeans," district police chief Zulkarnain Abdul Rahman told Bernama .

He said police were investigating the death and that the body had been sent for an autopsy.

Police and the British Airways office in Kuala Lumpur were not immediately able to make any comment.

However, the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur said today that the man was a Hungarian and not a British national.

- AFP