Make public CCTV footage, suspects' images - Ling's lawyer tells cops

Summary

• A lawyer representing Pamela Ling urges police to reveal to the public the visuals from her abduction on April 9.

• Sivananthan says police have nothing to lose now, as they could not find any new leads.

A lawyer representing the missing Pamela Ling believes the time has come for police to release the CCTV footage of her April 9 abduction and images of her assailants.

This came as the security agency seemed to have reached a dead end in their investigation, having found no new leads that could help trace her whereabouts or identify the abductors.

N Sivananthan said he last heard from the police last week, albeit without any good news.

"...it's very frustrating, they have told me they have no leads whatsoever towards locating her or finding out what happened to her," he told Malaysiakini earlier today.

The counsel further said it was hard to believe that police could not identify anyone involved in the incident.

This was especially given the fact that police have acquired CCTV footage of the abduction and visuals of Ling's kidnappers.

"At this stage, I don't understand why the police can't release the images to ask the public whether anyone can recognise them.

"What have they got to lose at this stage?" Sivananthan asked.

Malaysiakini has contacted the Kuala Lumpur police for updates on the case and to ask if they plan to release visuals of the suspects to the public.

Ling’s abduction

Ling was abducted near the MACC headquarters in Putrajaya when she was on her way to meet anti-graft investigators to facilitate a money laundering investigation on April 9.

Five other vehicles reportedly blocked a Grab car ferrying her when it was about to reach the MACC premises.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Rusdi Isa told a press conference on May 8 that investigators have obtained CCTV recordings at the location.

Based on the recordings, police believed at least eight individuals were involved in the abduction, including two who were wearing police vests.

Investigators believed the suspects were only impersonating police, Rusdi had said.

They also managed to get a photofit of one of the suspects, but Rusdi said it didn’t help much as it was of low quality.

Police also arrested Ling's husband to facilitate their probe into the missing case, but he was released a day later as the Putrajaya court denied the police's application for remand.

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