Police are confident of solving the shooting case involving Arab-Malaysian Bank founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi although the latter's son is reluctant to come to Malaysia.

NONE Kuala Lumpur CID chief Ku Chin Wah ( left ) said the investigation was progressing well as police had sought other sources of information and intelligence-based reports.

"There is no need to send our officers to Russia to meet the son and collect evidence from him. We have enough experienced senior officers to handle this case efficiently," he told Bernama today.

A local daily reported today that Hussain's son Pascal Najadi, 45, will not be coming to Malaysia following his security advisers asking him not to expose himself to any undue risks.

On Monday, Hussain, 75, was shot dead while his wife, Chong Mei Kuen, 49, was injured when they were shot from close range by a gunman whom the police suspect to be a hired killer.

The couple was walking towards their car after discussing a property deal at a Chinese temple in Lorong Ceylon here, when the incident occurred.

It is learnt the police have a closed-circuit television grab of a man linked to the killing of the septuagenarian.

On Thursday, Pascal was reported to have claimed that his father's murder was pre-meditated and that there was no property deal involved.

- Bernama