Bintulu police chief Supt Sulaiman Abdul Razak, yesterday conceded that their investigation into a fingerprint lifted from one of the letters was nearing a ‘dead end’.

He told reporters after the Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) Sarawak annual general meeting that the fingerprint was sent to the State police headquarters here for analysis but it came up empty.

“We hope the fingerprint which was retrieved from one of the letters will help us ‘break the case’ but it turned out otherwise.

“The investigation is still going on but it is in another direction now,” said Sulaiman.

Although he did not elaborate, he said the police were still questioning people on the case.
On July 30, postal workers from the Bintulu Post Office in Jalan Tun Razak intercepted two suspicious envelopes while sorting letters and called the police.

The envelopes, both measuring 30cm x 20cm, contained two shotgun cartridges and a threatening letter written in broken Bahasa Malaysia.

Bintulu police had questioned the alleged sender - a man, whose name and MyKad number appeared in the letter - but no persons had been arrested in connection with the case so far.

Police had classified the case as criminal intimidation and not as a threat to kill either the IGP or the MP, who have been very vocal about gangsterism in the State.