‘Whistleblower slain by hired killers’
According to Raja Petra Kamarudin, businessman Patrick Wong did not fall off his house balcony when attempting to escape robbers. The deceased, claimed the blogger, was strangled and thrown off.
According to the blogger, the police had given Wong’s widow the cold shoulder when she met them because the deceased was considered to be a Pakatan supporter since Anwar’s daughter and PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah attended the funeral.
RK Anand, Free Malaysia Today
A businessman compiling evidence on the alleged corruption in the Pakatan Rakyat Selangor government was murdered by hired killers, claims Raja Petra Kamarudin.
The blogger in an article published in Malaysia-Today today said it took him three years to get to the truth regarding the death of contractor Patrick Wong, whom the police claimed suffered a fatal fall from his house balcony when attempting to flee from robbers.
“A good friend of mine was murdered and I want to know the reason why. And now, after almost three years, I am in possession of the tangible evidence that reveals the ‘official’ story,” he wrote.
Raja Petra said that he met the deceased and his wife when the couple visited the UK in October 2009, more than a year after the opposition bloc seized control of Selangor.
During the meeting, the businessman had, among others, raised the sand mining scandal, which erupted in the following year.
“The sand mining business was one of the cash cows of the previous state government… Instead of putting this cash cow to sleep, some people in PKR took it over and were milking it dry,” he added.
Raja Petra, who is based in Manchester, said he heard about the scandal when he was still in Malaysia and both Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim were aware of it.
The blogger said he told Wong that he would not be able to publish the matter on his Malaysia Today news portal without evidence and the latter had agreed to be his whistleblower, promising to compile the necessary proof.
“He asked me to give him a month and probably by the end of November (2009), I would have a complete dossier revealing those in the state government involved in the sand mining syndicate.
“Sad to say, that never happened. A couple of weeks later, Wong was murdered,” he added.
‘Deep Throats confirmed it was murder’
Raja Petra said that when he was notified about Wong’s death, he immediately telephoned his contacts in the police and underworld.
“My Deep Throats confirmed that the assassins who murdered Wong were hired killers. It was not a robbery, it was an assassination ‘related to some business matters’, my contacts told me.
“I trust my Deep Throats more than I trust the government. And if they say that Wong was murdered by hired killers, then that is the story I am going to believe,” he added.
Furthermore, Raja Petra claimed that the official version was riddled with holes.
“The doctor’s report said that the cause of death was a ‘blunt force trauma to the head with compression of the neck’. My Deep Throats told me that Wong was strangled and then thrown off the balcony.
“The police said he accidentally fell while trying to escape. How do they then account for the compression of the neck (meaning strangled) if he accidentally fell from the balcony?” he asked.
According to the blogger, the police had given Wong’s widow the cold shoulder when she met them because the deceased was considered to be a Pakatan supporter since Anwar’s daughter and PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah attended the funeral.
“Does this mean the police were not interested in properly investigating Wong’s murder since he was a Pakatan supporter? Actually, Wong was not a Pakatan supporter. He was a Malaysia Today supporter.
“In fact, he was not happy with what was going on in Selangor under the Pakatan government and that was why he wanted me to do something about it: such as expose the sand mining syndicate,” he said.
