ALOR STAR, Mon:

Four people including an aquarium shop owner were robbed by 10 men armed with machetes at Alor Janggus near here yesterday.

The robbers who came in two Mercedes Benz, a Honda CRV and a Proton car escaped with RM4,000 and jewellery and mobile phones worth RM5,000, said Kota Star police chief ACP Abdul Ghafar Rejab.

He said the robbers first struck at the aquarium shop and robbed its owner of RM4,000 and mobile phones, and a passerby of cash.

Abdul Ghafar said the shopkeeper and his brother were attending to a customer when the incident occurred at 4.50pm.

He said the robbers who parked their cars in front of their shop did not harm the brothers and their customer.
“The robbers then drove to a nearby house and robbed a 34-year-old woman and an elderly woman of jewellery and mobile phones worth RM3,600 half an hour later,” he told Bernama when contacted today.

New Straits Times

M. Sadasivam playing with Shaariibuu, one of two Rottweilers. - NST picture by Salim Shaari

RAWANG: Healthy, well-fed and blissfully ignorant of their owners’ disappearance.

This sums up the condition of Monde and Shaariibuu — P. Balasubramaniam’s two pet Rottweilers.

It has been two weeks since the private investigator went into hiding with his wife and three children, leaving behind two dogs and a Honda CRV at his single-storey house in Taman Pelangi, Rawang.

The family disappeared on July 4, after Balasubramaniam retracted his statutory declaration linking Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to murdered Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu.

The New Straits Times received many letters from dog lovers concerned about Balasubramaniam’s pets after photographs were published showing them locked up in their cages. The good news for the dog lovers is that the dogs are being taken care of by caring neighbours.
M. Sadasivam, who lives six houses away, took pity on the dogs and has now earned their trust.

The 52-year-old cattle owner said initially he fed the dogs from outside the cages as Rottweilers were said to be fierce animals.

“A few days later, the dogs started to warm up to me and that’s when I started taking them out for walks, washing and feeding them.”

According to Sadasivam, Monde a three-year-old female and her seven-month-old son, Shaariibuu were fed twice a day, given walks every morning and bathed every four days.

Balasubramaniam’s house was broken into and ransacked last week but burglars only took his computer.

Police later found the keys to the front gate and handed them to Sadasivam.

Police said Balasubramaniam, a former Special Branch officer, and his family were hiding in a foreign country. Police had met him and recorded a statement.

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