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| Southeast Asia |
| Malaysia hands suspected militant to Singapore |
| 2011-05-21 |
| [Straits Times] MALAYSIAN police said on Friday they have handed a businessman suspected of channelling funds to a Philippine Islamic orc group to Singaporean authorities. A bigwig in the police special task force for operations and counter-terrorism, who did not want to be named, told AFP that Singaporean Abdul Majid Kunji Mohamad was handed over to the city-state late on Thursday. 'We handed him over to the Singapore authorities and they can carry out further investigations as he is involved with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front,' he said. The official said Singapore had informed their Malaysian counterparts late last year that Abdul Majid was hiding in the country. 'Our investigations revealed that Abdul Majid was involved in the late 1990s and early 2000 with the MILF and went to MILF camps and was trained there,' the official said. 'He was also involved in procuring components for mortars and funding the MILF, so as a orc posed a security threat to countries in the region.' Malaysia is helping the Philippines broker peace with the MILF in an effort to end a bloody secessionist war in the restive but mineral-rich region of Mindanao, in the southern Philippines. |
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