The nation was in shock yesterday when Arab-Malaysian Bank founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi was shot to death in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.

Najadi was walking to his car with his wife along Jalan Ceylon ayer negotiating a land deal at the Kuan Yin temple. What he did not know was that three killers were waiting for him.

According to the police, one of them opened fire, hitting him in the chest and lower abdomen. He died on the spot. His 49-year-old Malaysian wife, Cheong Mei Kuen, was wounded on the left hand and her right leg. She was rushed to the Tung Shin Hospital in Jln Pudu before being transferred to Prince Medical Court for surgery.

Pascal Najadi, the son of the deceased was shocked upon hearing about his father’s death in Kuala Lumpur. The 45-year-old found it ironic that his father’s murder took place in Malaysia, a country he had called home for the last four decades.

Dang Wangi OCPD Asst Comm Zainuddin Ahmad believes three men were responsible for the attack.

“They escaped in a Proton Waja taxi,” he said, adding that the three, believed to be between 35 and 40 years old, had waited outside the temple while Najadi was negotiating the deal with his business partners.

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