'ISA detainee an equipment supplier to militants'
Singapore businessman Abdul Majid Kunji Mohamad now held under the Internal Security Act is believed to have been supplying double-purpose engineering equipment to a militant group in the southern Philippines.
Singapore businessman Abdul Majid Kunji Mohamad now held under the Internal Security Act is believed to have been supplying double-purpose engineering equipment to a militant group in the southern Philippines.
According to an intelligence source, the equipment was for use in the arms factory of the militants.
He told Bernama today that the equipment could be used to make several types of weapons, including rocket propelled grenades.
He said the 60-year-old businessman, who was residing in Kuala Lumpur, had a radical understanding of Islam but did not belong to any militant group.
The source said that Abdul Majid (right) might be handed over to the Singapore authorities after 60 days of detention under the ISA.
Inspector general of police Ismail Omar in a statement on May 9 said that Abdul Majid was detained on suspicion of contributing funds and giving logistic aid to a militant group in the southern Philippines.
A report in a Singapore newspaper said that Abdul Majid was a board member of the Association of Muslim Professionals in Singapore for a year in the 1990s.
The source said that Abdul Majid had donated RM19,500 (SGD$8,000) to the group for the building of a mosque in the southern Philippines.
- Bernama
