Mamak Gang leader caught
Lourde Charles
By LOURDES CHARLES and NELSON BENJAMIN
KUALA LUMPUR: Police flushed out the country's most wanted criminal
yesterday by cutting off the water supply to his apartment-hideout and ended
the notorious Mamak Gang's decade of reign of terror.
Khairul Affendie Mohd Noor, 25, gave up without a struggle when plainclothes
police pounced on him at 10.45am yesterday at the Puncak Damansara
condominium in Kampung Sungei Ara, Petaling Jaya.
It is believed that Khairul Affendie, who had been eluding police dragnets
for years, was nabbed when he went to see his pregnant wife who is due to
give birth at any time.
His wife is said to be the daughter of a Datuk who is a senior Kedah
government officer.
The arrest of the haggard-looking Khairul Affendie, said to be a syabu
dependent, came after a week of round-the-clock surveillance on all his
known hideouts by a task force headed by Asst CID Director Senior Asst Comm
(II) Abdul Rahim Hanafi.
With Khairul Affendie's arrest, police have accounted for all but one of the
39-member gang, whose loot is said to total some RM50mil since it first
emerged in the early 90s.
"Their (Mamak Gang's) reign has finally ended although one more gang member,
Yusof Abu Bakar, who escaped from police custody last year, is still at
large," CID Director Comm Datuk Salleh Mat Som said.
He said Khairul Affendie was involved in at least 35 violent crime cases,
including bank robberies in Perak, cargo hijackings, car thefts and wayside
robberies throughout the country.
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"Our investigations reveal that he amassed a fortune of about RM10mil in the
35 cases that he personally carried out," he told a press conference at the
federal police headquarters yesterday.
Comm Salleh said 35 of the gang members were being detained at the Simpang
Renggam detention centre under preventive laws while two were serving time
in prison.
The gang, he said, was responsible for no less than 150 robberies, including
cargo hijackings, luxury car thefts, robberies and warehouse break-ins.
Police seized from Khairul Affendie a Volvo station wagon which was reported
stolen in Kulim last November.
They also recovered from him four cellphones, 11 car registration plates, a
parang, a fake driving licence, gloves, double tapes, three talisman and an
identity card belonging to someone else.
Comm Salleh said a number of people had positively identified Khairul
Affendie as being involved in several robberies.
He added that police wanted to know who were the others with him when he
allegedly robbed a Bank Simpanan Nasional branch in Sungai Siput and where
they stashed their firearms.
With Khairul Affendi's arrest, Comm Salleh said, police had officially
closed the Ops Mamak file.
Comm Salleh appealed to the public who had been victims of the gang to lodge
reports to enable police to wrap up their investigations.
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