Peter Chong returns to KL, claims he was abducted in Hatyai
Chong tells police he had gone to Hatyai to find out more about Pastor Koh but claims he was abducted and brought to Pattaya.
“Missing Peter Chong is back from Pattaya this afternoon,” Khalid said on his Twitter account, while congratulating the police force.
Police took a statement from Chong at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport before he joined his family members about 2pm.
When contacted, Kuala Lumpur police chief Amar Singh Ishar Singh, said Chong told police he had gone to Hatyai with the intention of meeting his source who was to reveal more information on the disappearance of Pastor Koh Keng Joo.
Upon reaching Hatyai, he claims he was abducted and brought to Pattaya.
Upon release, he said he contacted his son who bought his return ticket home.
On Wednesday, Khalid had said police had information that Chong had crossed the border into Thailand at the Bukit Kayu Hitam checkpoint.
Chong, a former aide to PKR MP Sivarasa Rasiah, was said to have disappeared days after he related on Facebook about his conversation with a stranger, who warned him to be more careful in the wake of several cases of missing activists.
Chong’s son, Darryl, had lodged a police report on April 8 after attempts to contact his father failed. A task force was subsequently formed to look into Chong’s disappearance.
Chong’s disappearance came after the widely reported abduction of Pastor Raymond Koh, as well as the cases of Pastor Joshua Hilmy, his wife Ruth Hilmy and Perlis-based social acitivist Amri Che Mat.
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