{"id":13758,"date":"2013-07-30T00:24:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buletinonline.net\/v7\/?p=13758"},"modified":"2013-07-30T01:26:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:26:09","slug":"bankers-son-stunned-over-fathers-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/bankers-son-stunned-over-fathers-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Banker&#8217;s son stunned over father&#8217;s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Pascal Najadi has expressed shock over the murder of his father, Hussain Ahmad Najadi, renowned banker and founder of the Arab Malaysian Banking Group here Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/banker-murdered.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13759 alignright\" alt=\"banker murdered\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/banker-murdered-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I was shocked upon hearing about the killing in Kuala Lumpur, which was carried out in broad daylight,&#8221; he said in a telephone interview from Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Pascal, who holds dual Swiss and British citizenships, urged the Malaysian authorities to do its utmost to apprehend the culprits involved in the killing of his 75-year-old father and bring them to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Pascal, 45, who is also a banker, said the irony was that his father was murdered in Malaysia, a country for which the latter had so much affection, having called it home for more than four decades.<\/p>\n<p>Hussain Ahmad was gunned down while his 49-year-old wife was seriously injured when they emerged from the Kuan Yin Temple in Lorong Ceylon about 2pm. [Picture]<\/p>\n<p>The septuagenarian sustained two shots in the chest and died on the spot while his wife was hit in the left hand and right leg.<\/p>\n<p>Initial police investigations revealed that the gunman was among three people who waited outside the temple for Hussain Ahmad who was said to have been in a business discussion with a colleague.<\/p>\n<p>Pascal said he came to know about the killing, a few hours after it was carried out in the Malaysian capital, adding that he was also informed by the Malaysian police.<br \/>\nHussain Ahmad founded Arab Malaysian Banking Group in 1975 before it changed hands in 1982, to what is known as Arab Malaysian Bank or Ambank. &#8211; Bernama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Pascal Najadi has expressed shock over the murder of his father, Hussain Ahmad Najadi, renowned banker and founder of the Arab Malaysian Banking Group here Monday. &#8220;I was shocked upon hearing about the killing in Kuala Lumpur, which was carried out in broad daylight,&#8221; he said in a telephone interview from Europe. Pascal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":13759,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":800,"height":600,"file":"2013\/07\/banker-murdered.jpg","filesize":104690,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":13758,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/banker-murdered.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}