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On 29th July 2013, a gunman crept from behind the cars parked outside Kuan Yin temple in Jalan Ceylon and fired randomly at Hussain Ahmad Najadi, killing the renowned banker on the spot
About a year later, in September 2014, High Court judge Justice Mohd Azman Husin sentenced 45-year-old Koong Swee Kwan, a tow truck driver, to death for murdering Arab-Malaysian Development Bank founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi.
As for the motive, rumours were rife that it was over a property deal that had gone sour, involving the Chinese temple where Najadi had visited prior to his murder, The Malaysian Insider had reported. However, police have yet to confirm this.
Pascal Najadi, however, believes there is more to his father's murder. In an interview with Sarawak Report on 7 July 2015, the son of slain AmBank founder accused Malaysian police of allowing the mastermind behind the assassination to escape. He says:
Pascal, who currently resides in Moscow, believes his father was assassinated not because he was helping a temple to stop its land from being acquired for development but because of his open concerns about corruption at the bank he had once managed
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"I am willing to go on the record. Nothing else makes sense. This was an execution, not a killing. The story about the temple doesn't add up. He was nothing to do with the Temple. Why would you kill someone over some row about that?" he told Sarawak Report in the interview, referring to a supposed planning dispute that was floated at the time as being the reason for his father's death.
