POLICE have opened an investigation into the stolen jewellery of a woman who died of Covid-19 last week in a Seremban hospital.

Seremban police chief ACP Mohd Said Ibrahim confirmed the case but declined to comment further.

“The case is being investigated under section 380 of the penal code for theft.”

“We are investigating the matter and I cannot comment further,” he told Malaysian Insight today.

Malaysiakini reported today that a man has filed a police report that his mother’s jewellery went missing after she died  at the Tuanku Jaafar Hospital.

The son, T. Narenthiran said he and his sister had brought their mother to the hospital’s emergency department when she developed a fever and breathing difficulties.

He said his mother had been wearing a gold necklace, a pair of gold earrings, three bracelets and a ring.

She died the same day she was brought to the hospital.

Narenthiran said when he claimed the body the next day, the hospital staff returned only the ring.

“My mother’s jewellery has gone missing and I believe it happened in the emergency room or the mortuary,” he said in his report sighted by Malaysiakini.

Narenthiran then asked the hospital staff to help him open the body bag to find the missing jewellery, only to be met with another surprise.

The wrong body was inside, he said.

“After getting permission from one Encik Nahar, who is the Health Ministry officer, to open my mum’s body bag, I found that the hospital had given me the body of an unknown Indian man who also died from Covid-19 while my mum’s body was in a hearse ready to be taken away by other people,” he was quoted as saying.

Subsequently, the staff rectified the situation but the missing jewellery was not on his mother’s body nor in the body bag. – January 26, 2021.