THERE is no proof to suggest that the disappearance of MH370 was due to a murder-suicide plot, Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador said today.

The country’s top cop said the police had probed the mystery from all angles.

“None of the theories can be confirmed as we haven’t found the plane,” he said, when asked to comment on former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott’s claim that a high-ranking Malaysian government official knew what had caused the flight to vanish en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

“I don’t know who are these ‘highest levels’. I was also involved in the probe and from our side, we probed from all angles – terrorism, hijacking, including the use of high-end technology to hijack the plane, and so on.

“So there were many facts collected. Let’s (just say that) if the plane is found, we will reopen the investigation,” Hamid said.

Abbott told Sky News recently that someone “from the very top levels of the Malaysian government” told him “very, very early on, they (Putrajaya) thought it was murder-suicide by the pilot”.

“I’m not going to say who said what to whom but let me reiterate, I want to be absolutely crystal clear, it was understood at the highest levels that this was almost certainly murder-suicide by the pilot.”

Zaharie Ahmad Shah was the pilot of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, which carried 239 people, the majority of whom were Chinese, when it disappeared over the South China Sea about 40 minutes into its flight to the Chinese capital.

Abbott was prime minister when the flight disappeared on March 8, 2014, triggering the biggest hunt in aviation history.

Only a few fragments of the jet have been found, all on western Indian Ocean shores, and search efforts ended in 2018.

Abbot added that he had briefed then prime minister Najib Razak on the investigation.

“I gave him as the prime minister the freedom to share information with the media.”

Hamid today said he could not comment on such a theory until the plane was found. Hamid was previously in the police Special Branch unit. 

Earlier today former prime ,inister Najib Razak said the government at the time did not made public its suspicions that criminal motive was behind the disappearance of MH370 as there was no concrete proof.

Najib said his government had explored all avenues during the investigation, including the possible involvement of the airplane’s pilot, Zaharie.

“It would have been deemed unfair and legally irresponsible since the black boxes and cockpit voice recorders had not been found and hence, there was no conclusive proof whether the pilot was solely or jointly responsible,” Najib told news portal Free Malaysia Today.

He said the authorities had also looked into the political affiliations of Zaharie as possible motive for the disappearance of the plane.

“Again I must stress that this possible scenario was never ruled out during the search effort and investigations, where no effort was spared,” he added.

“The pilot is a known active opposition party member who had attended various political activities and the opposition leader had admitted later that the pilot was related to him,” said Najib. – February 19, 2020.