Tune Hotel probes alleged arrest of LTTE leader KP

By Sumaiya Rizvi

The Malaysian hotel from where the self proclaimed LTTE leader Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP was arrested conducted it’s own investigations and found that there were no signs of such an arrest in the hotel premises, an official of the hotel told Daily Mirror online today.

It was widely reported that KP was at the Tune hotel in Kuala Lampur meeting with relatives of some top LTTE officials when he had received a telephone call on his mobile phone. KP had stepped outside and was believed to have been arrested by intelligence officials waiting outside, reports quoting LTTE officials had said earlier.

“We conducted our own internal investigation to find out about the incident but even our CCTV videos did not find KP,” Tune Hotel PR, marketing and communications manager Binesh Vrajlal told Daily Mirror online.

According to him they had carried out an internal investigation into the hotel’s CCTV footage for the time period in question and did not find any footage that might resemble the man identified as KP.

“Our hotel has the most number of CCTV cameras amongst other hotels in Kuala Lumpur. Tune Hotel in KL does not have a car park and therefore they could not have been even arrested within the boundaries of the hotel,” Vrajlal said.

“The Malaysian government knows that KP was not in our Hotel that is why they have not even questioned us,” Vrajlal further added. He also said that the Malaysian Police or government had not contacted the Hotel with regard to the incident and that the internal investigation was carried out after the media had said KP was arrested from the hotel

None of the staff members were aware of such an incident until the news reports began to emerge with regard to the alleged arrest of KP during the past week, Vrajlal said.

Vrajlal further added that they were aware KP would not have used his real name but the hotel could not find any information on KP based on the images of him published in the media or the two visitors that supposedly visited him.

Daily Mirror