Immigration Dept seeking information about dead Japanese man from police

The Immigration Department has to receive more information from the police regarding the 33-year-old Japanese man who was found dead in the Subang USJ8 police lockup before they can clarify about his entry and exit activity in the country.

Immigration Director-General Datuk Alias Ahmad said the department is currently waiting for information about Nobuhiro Matshushita.

“We are getting information from the police who detained the subject,” he said in a text message to Astro AWANI.

Meanwhile, the Japanese embassy has contacted Nobujiro’s family in Japan and is working on bringing them into the country.

“We have already taken appropriate measures to bring them in. The measures are ongoing,” an embassy official told Astro AWANI.

However, the official did not elaborate further out of respect for the family and to give them some privacy.

Yesterday, Deputy Selangor police chief Datuk A.Thaiveegan has said that there is no record of Nobuhiro having entered and staying in the country before he was found dead of suspected suicide.

Thaiveegan however had said that Nobuhiro had previously been here but he left about two months ago and that the Immigration Department must clarify his Entry and exit activity.

Thaiveegan added that he hopes the family will help reveal more information about Nobuhiro, especially if he had any mental illness or what could have driven him to commit suicide in his cell, when they arrive here.

Nobuhiro’s family is expected to arrive in Malaysia next week.

On Sunday, Nobuhiro was found hanging from the iron bars, by his lockup clothes.

Nobuhiro, who was alone at a workshop near Monash University, allegedly pulled out a four-inch knife and threatened the Sunway auxiliary police when they approached him.

A group of auxiliary policemen was able to neutralise him and confiscate his weapon.

He was then detained in the Subang police station and remanded for three days for criminal intimidation and trespassing.

Initially, Nobuhiro was placed in a cell with other inmates. However, he was shifted to a separate cell after he allegedly made noise and disturbed the other inmates.

Police later obtained an extension to his remand order to facilitate investigation under the Immigration Act.