KUALA LUMPUR: Fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, is expected to be detained soon, says Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador.

Without giving details, he said the police are confident of bringing Jho Low back to the country to face justice. “Insya-Allah (God willing), when I say we are sure of bringing him back soon, it means soon,” he said yesterday.

Abdul Hamid was asked to comment on the developments with regard to Jho Low after a high-profile policing programme at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail Bazaar Ramadan site here.

He said last week that the police have new leads on the whereabouts of Jho Low who is allegedly linked to the 1Malaysia Development Bhd scandal.

Meanwhile Low, in an open letter, lashed out at the government for attempting to seize his mother’s bungalow in Tanjung Bungah Park in Penang.

He said there was no question that the purchase and building of this family home pre-dated the very existence of 1MDB by more than a decade. This point is irrefutable and is supported by a wealth of evidence, including the Certificate of Occupation dated July 13, 2000, he said.

“For the Malaysian government to now attempt to summarily seize my family home under the unequivocally false purported evidence and pretence that the purchase and building of the family home was somehow connected to the 1MDB allegations made against me is ludicrous,” he said.

Low’s mother, Goh Gaik Ewe, 66, had been included among those sought by police in the 1MDB probe.

In March, officers from the Bukit Aman’s Anti-Money Laun­dering and Anti-Terrorism Finan­cing Preven-tion division enforced a notice of seizure for the RM25mil property.