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Probe into love triangle
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By Mazlinda Mahmood, Fay Angela D’cruz and Kalbana Perimbanayagam
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The car of former Selangor assemblyman Catuk Abdul Aziz Mohd Noh with two bodies inside. -- PHOTO: SIN CHEW DAILY
KUALA LUMPUR: Police are probing a love triangle angle in the murder-cum-suicide of a former Selangor assemblyman and his aide. The families, however, are denying that former Permatang assemblyman Datuk Abdul Aziz Mohd Noh and his aide, Siti Rohana Ismat, were romantically involved.
Gombak district police chief Assistant Commissioner Abdul Rahim Abdullah said police were not discounting the love triangle angle as a possible motive. Rahim said although the case had been classified as murder-cum-suicide, police had yet to establish the motive for the incident.
“We recorded statements from the former assemblyman’s family and witnesses to the incident yesterday. “We hope to record statements from more family members and acquaintances of the two soon.” It was learnt that police had retrieved the call logs from the handphones of the two.
Aziz, who was also the Mubarak Selangor (Association of Former Assemblymen) treasurer, and Siti Rohana were found dead with gunshot wounds in a car which hit the divider along the New Klang Valley Expressway near Sungai Buloh on Tuesday.
The two were in Siti Rohana’s Toyota Caldina and were on their way to Tanjung Karang from their office in Petaling Jaya when the incident occurred at 11am. Police investigations revealed that Aziz, 64, was shot in the head while Siti Rohana, who was also the Tanjung Karang Wanita Umno vice-chief, was shot in the abdomen and head.
The shots were fired from Aziz’s .38 revolver, which was found in the car. Rahim said investigations showed that Aziz had shot Siti Rohana twice before taking his own life. Siti Rohana’s mother, Siti Badariah Ahmad, 62, however, denied allegations that her daughter was romantically linked to Aziz.
“She had nothing personal or special with him. I am her mother. I would have known if she had married him. There has been talk that the two had been having a relationship for years, but that is not true.
“My daughter was just his assistant and that was why she followed him around,” Siti Badariah said at her home in Kampung Sungai Gulang-Gulang, Tanjung Karang, yesterday. She claimed that her daughter was also financially sound. “Siti owned several parcels of land, a house and a business.”
In Shah Alam, Aziz’s second daughter, Nor Azian, 37, a Universiti Industri Selangor lecturer, said the family knew Siti Rohana as their father’s
personal assistant. “There was speculation that she was his second wife, but we don’t know anything about this.
“We do not know if it is true or otherwise. There is no proof,” she said at her family home in Section 9 here yesterday. Nor Azian said her siblings were keeping such talks from their mother, Datin Siti Fatimah Md Noor, 62. “Our mother is still in shock and we do not want to add to her worries,” she said.
Aziz was the assemblyman for Permatang, Selangor, from 2004 to 2008. He served as the political secretary to then Selangor menteri besar Tan Sri Abu Hassan Omar in 1997. Siti Rohana was active at her division in Tanjung Karang and has been a personal aide to Aziz since 2004.
