Couple steals from missing MH370 passenger accounts

A Malaysian court has reportedly issued an arrest warrant for a couple charged with withdrawing funds from bank accounts of three passengers and a flight attendant from the still missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Deputy Public Prosecutor Fadhli Mahmud announced on Monday that the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court had granted his petition to issue an arrest warrant for the couple after they failed to show up for a scheduled court hearing.

The embezzlement of funds from the accounts of the missing individuals was carried out between May 15 and June 29, 2014, according to local press reports, which further state that the bank's manager reported the suspicious transactions to law enforcement authorities over a month after the theft.

Meanwhile, the couple, bank employee Nur Shila Kanan and her mechanic husband Basheer Ahmad Maula Sahul Hameed, both 34, is charged with conducting illegal transfers of funds and withdrawals worth more than $31,000 dollars.

The doomed MH370 flight was bound for the Chinese capital Beijing when it disappeared without a trace with 239 passengers and crew on board after it departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014.

24 Jan MFB News