Officers of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad and members of the Homicide Bureau were up to late evening questioning five Muslimeen members in connection with last year?s shooting death of businessman Christopher Aleong.
By Wendy CampbellThey were being interrogated at the Port-of-Spain Criminal Investigations Department.
Two of them were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the kidnapping of 71-year-old gas station proprietor Alvin Nunes, who was snatched for a $120,000 ransom last Sunday in front of his service station on Belmont Circular Road, Belmont.
The AKS officers rescued Nunes at a house in Patna Village, Diego Martin, and held two suspects.
No ransom had been paid.
Senior officers said it was based on information received from those two suspects that AKS officers were led to three other men.
?They furnished the AKS with information,? a senior officer said.
The other three were arrested yesterday in various places including the precincts of the Port-of-Spain Magistrates? Court.
The one who was held at the court had just attended a matter, senior officers said.
Police sources said at least two of the five were expected to be charged with Aleong?s murder based on their own admission.
A sixth man is also being sought by the police.
There were reports that the five were members of the Jamaat al Muslimeen.
However, Jamaat leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr said he had no knowledge that any of his followers had been arrested for Aleong?s murder.
?None of my members are being questioned,? Bakr told the Guardian.
Aleong, 68, was murdered outside his home on the morning of December 2, 2003.
He was the brother of former BWIA CEO Conrad Aleong and uncle of magistrate Sonia Aleong.
Aleong was shot dead outside his home at Hibiscus Drive, Petit Valley.
The father of six was on his way to work in his Audi when he received six shots about the body, including the chest. The car then crashed ino a wall.
Senior officers said they believed then that there was a hit and that there had been rumours of a rift among family members.
Police said the squabble could have originated from the distribution of company assets.
Aleong?s movements were believed to have been monitored for sometime.
A discarded white glove was found at the scene.
