KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 (Bernama) -- DNA analyses to identify victims in criminal cases can be a painstaking process and need time to complete, Chemistry Department director-general N. Hithaya Jeevan said.
He said similar process also took place in analysing samples in the murders of cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others.
"We expect that the process can be completed in the near future. However, we cannot provide any time frame when we can hand over the results to the police.
"The time taken to complete the DNA profiling depends on the amount of samples available," he said told Bernama.
Sosilawati, 47, her driver Kamaruddin Shamsuddin, 44, lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, and CIMB Bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, went missing on Aug 30 after they went to Banting in Selangor over a land deal.
Police found out that the four were killed, their bodies burnt and the ashes thrown into rivers near Ladang Gadong, Tanjung Sepat, near Banting.
Police forensic unit found bone fragments and hair samples believed to be connected with the murders and sent them to the Chemistry Department for analysis last week.
Hithaya Jeevan said the department previously handled difficult cases which took them sometime to complete, including the murder Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu and the murder of information technology analyst Canny Ong.
The department has a strength of six forensic experts.
He said similar process also took place in analysing samples in the murders of cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others.
"We expect that the process can be completed in the near future. However, we cannot provide any time frame when we can hand over the results to the police.
"The time taken to complete the DNA profiling depends on the amount of samples available," he said told Bernama.
Sosilawati, 47, her driver Kamaruddin Shamsuddin, 44, lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, and CIMB Bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, went missing on Aug 30 after they went to Banting in Selangor over a land deal.
Police found out that the four were killed, their bodies burnt and the ashes thrown into rivers near Ladang Gadong, Tanjung Sepat, near Banting.
Police forensic unit found bone fragments and hair samples believed to be connected with the murders and sent them to the Chemistry Department for analysis last week.
Hithaya Jeevan said the department previously handled difficult cases which took them sometime to complete, including the murder Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu and the murder of information technology analyst Canny Ong.
The department has a strength of six forensic experts.
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