Authorities in Malaysia are on alert as Canada gets set to deport an unrepentant serial rapist back to his homeland.

The Ottawa-based High Commissioner of Malaysia is taking the “necessary action” regarding Selva Kumar Subbiah, spokesman Dzulkefly Abdullah said in an e-mail, without elaborating.

Farik Zolkepli, a journalist with the Malaysia Star, said in an e-mail that police in the south Asian country intend to contact Canadian authorities for information about his fate.

Subbiah, now 56, pleaded guilty to drugging and sexually assaulting scores of women in Toronto in two separate trials.

Denied parole because he was deemed a continuing danger, Subbiah has served his entire 24-year sentence and is poised to be released from a federal prison on Jan. 29.

The Canada Border Services Agency confirmed Subbiah, who arrived in Canada in 1980, “is under an enforceable deportation order.”

It is a fate that Subbiah has long sought to avoid, once claiming through an immigration lawyer that he was Jewish and would be persecuted in the strict Muslim country where the convicted can be caned or executed.

There are concerns he will find a way to stay or return to Canada.

Through the second half of the 1980s — until captured in 1991 — Subbiah presented himself to potential victims as a modelling agent, a dancer in the musical Cats or movie producer.

He used the women in his life, wives and girlfriends, to approach females about possible jobs in the entertainment or modelling field and then slipped a powerful sleeping pill into their drinks before sexually assaulting them.

Police found a trove of photographic trophies in a locked room in his Toronto home.

Those who hunted the hunter — the investigating officers and prosecutors — describe a remorseless, manipulative predator.

Time does not seem to have changed him — the National Parole Board found no evidence of empathy for his victims, no willingness to engage in treatment, and flatly refused to let him out early.

The Toronto Sun sought an interview with Subbiah in prison but received no response.

Brian Thomson, a retired Toronto police officer who served in the sexual assault squad, said he and his partner, Peter Duggan, interviewed more than 500 woman who were victimized by Subbiah — 120 that agreed to go to court.

“In a heartbeat, he will reoffend — there is no doubt in my mind,” Thomson said. “He is a total, classic psychopath ... I’ve met a lot of interesting people. He is the scariest I’ve ever met.”

There were schoolgirl victims but also many professional women who felt confused and guilty or weren’t believed, he said.

One woman got into a car accident as she drove home after a drug-laced attack, he said.

Many were unwilling to testify as their families did not know what had happened to them, and some hadn’t known they’d been raped until the officers showed them Subbiah’s sick photographic mementos, Thomson said.

“One young girl, she hopped on a train in Toronto and she went all the way to Vancouver,” Thomson said. “And as soon as she saw her mom, she broke down ... People react differently.”

Police put an undercover female officer into Subbiah’s favourite hunting grounds, a now-defunct Yonge Street cafe and bar, to see if he would approach her, Thomson said.

The skinny long-haired Subbiah, who also went by the stolen alias Richard Wild, quickly sent a “lady friend” over to meet her and before long police had the evidence they needed to move in for the arrest, he said.

According to police reports at the time, a 19-year-old Toronto woman was charged as an accessory to his offences but the case against her was dropped.

Police do not believe his wife at the time, who was not charged and reported being beaten and controlled by Subbiah, knew of his activities.

Armed with a warrant, police went into his home where they found the locked room containing a large supply of the sleeping drug Halcion, recordings and journals that told them the assaults extended far beyond the initial handful of victims, including a book ranking his victims.

“When we started going through the book, we thought, ‘Oh God,’” Thomson said.

Trouble From The Start



•1979: Selvah Subbiah secures three-month student visa at Canadian Embassy in Singapore, renewed it nine times



•1981: Convicted of possession of stolen property in 1981, conditional discharge so no deportation



•1988: Convicted of public mischief, fined $300, too minor an offence for deportation



•1990: Arrested for working illegally in Canada



•1991: Charged with two counts of sexual assault, administering noxious substance, more victims found



•1992: Pleads guilty to 14 counts of sexual assault and six counts of administering a noxious substance — 25 victims identified at this point



1992: Jailed for 16 years



•1994: Police lay 274 new charges relating to another 70 victims while Subbiah in Kingston Penitentiary for offences dating up to 10 years, including four counts each of sexual interference with a female under 16 and threatening death, and single counts of having sexual intercourse with a female under 14, assault with a weapon, forcible confinement and choking.



•1994: Applies for refugee status saying he’s Jewish and shouldn’t be deported to Malaysia, a strict Muslim country



•1994: Immigration declares him danger to public



•1997: Pleads guilty to 55 charges in attacks on 22 women, sentenced to 20 years.



•2008: National Parole Board says Subbiah shows no empathy for victims, minimizes his crimes, not suitable for parole



•2009: Subbiah attacked by two fellow inmates at Kingston Pen, suffers minor staff wounds. Launches lawsuit claiming he suffered anxiety, mental anguish and stress, and no longer felt safe in a group.



•2013: Federal court rejects his lawsuit.



Jan. 29, 2017: Scheduled to be released from prison, and then deported to Malaysia