RAYMOND Koh’s abduction looked like a police operation but it had nothing to do with us, a senior police officer told the Suhakam inquiry into the disappearance of the pastor and three others today.

Koh’s family lawyer Jerald Gomez questioned Selangor Criminal Investigation Department chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Fadzil Ahmat today if it was possible that the abduction was linked to a rogue group in the police.

“No, not likely”, the CID chief said.

Gomez then pressed on, asking if the Special Branch could have been involved in the pastor’s abduction, without Fadzil’s knowledge.

“Definitely not,” the CID chief shot back.

Fadzil, the 10th witness, however, said that from the footage of Koh’s abduction, the incident looked very organised, adding that it was a similar to the operations police had carried out.

“Yes, we have a similar MO (modus operandi) like that. It looks the same from a tactical point of view. It’s a similar pattern of an organised operation.

“I didn’t say it was a police operation, but police have conducted operations in this way. They (abductors) had to be well trained,” he said.

Touching on the attire the abductors used, Fadzil said in any police operation, the team must have the police insignia on their outfits.

“The police must have a badge and they must identify themselves. If they don’t identify themselves then they are not police.

“But some wear and some don’t wear. I don’t know.”

Earlier, Gomez questioned Fadzil on the mobile phone signal from Koh’s handphone and the exit routes that the abductors could have taken.

This line of questioning, Gomez told the inquiry panel, was to show that the task force under Fadzil was not telling the inquiry everything they knew. 

Gomez pointed out that police had not tendered any evidence and all the information the inquiry had received was from witnesses.

“They are not telling us everything,” the lawyer said.

Fadzil, however, said  police could not reveal everything.

“We know Koh’s last (mobile phone) signal was detected at 2pm, and we checked and didn’t get anything. We can’t reveal what we are doing from A to Z,” he said. 

Last week, the inquiry heard that the police had no clue if Koh, who is missing since February, was dead or alive. 

An earlier witness, Assistant Superintendant Supari Muhammad had said Koh’s abduction was likely the work of extremists.

The inquiry is seeking to determine if the disappearance of Koh and three others – Pastor Joshua Hilmy, his wife Ruth, and social activist Amri Che Mat – are cases of enforced disappearance, a term for abductions carried out with the authorisation or support of the state or a political organisation. – November 23, 2017.

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