DAP MP Ong Kian Ming has taken the police to task over the unsolved murder of the late Customs deputy director-general Shaharuddin Ibrahim last year, as not even a single arrest has been made.

This is despite Shaharuddin’s (left) son, Mohd Akhtar, advising police to look into his father’s investigation into a Langkawi car-smuggling syndicate, which he believed is linked to the shooting.

Ong noted that Shaharuddin was shot on April 26 last year amid the GE13 campaign period, about a month after the Customs Department reported that they had detected 368 smuggled vehicles.

The cars, originally registered in duty-free Langkawi, were transferred to the mainland using fake custom documents to evade custom duties and taxes.

"I call upon the (Inspector-General of Police) IGP Khalid Abu Bakar to be accountable to the family of the late Shaharuddin Ibrahim by leaving no stone unturned in the investigation into his murder and to give regular updates about this investigation to his family.

"Do not deprive ‘Mr Clean’s’ (Shaharuddin’s) family of the justice that is due to them," Ong said in a press statement.

The Serdang MP also said the case must be expedited as he claimed second-hand car dealers recently reported to him and Seputeh MP Teresa Kok about how they were duped into buying cars with faked custom records.

"Last week, some of these dealers were given a 50 percent ‘discount’ by customs for the unpaid duties and taxes or face the threat of having their cars confiscated.

"This is grossly unfair since it punishes the victims rather than going after the perpetrators of this fraud," Ong claimed, adding the dealers have lodged reports with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and the police.

However, he claimed neither the police nor MACC responded to their plight.