KOTA KINABALU: A membership card of a society known as ‘Knight of the Right Keeper’ was discovered by security forces carrying out a mopping up operation at Kampung Tanjung Batu, Lahad Datu, on March 21 last year, the High Court here heard yesterday.
When identifying the card in court, commanding officer of the 22nd Commando Regiment, Lt. Col. Adi Ridzwan Abdullah said the words were printed at the top of the card, with its initials ‘KRK’ printed in the middle, while the cardholder’s name was ‘Hamsan Hamja’.
He said the words ‘Knight of the Right Keeper’ also appeared on a small piece of paper which was inside an envelope.
“There are five signatures on this document which are the same as the signatures on the envelope,” he added.
Adi Ridzwan said the name ‘Hamsan Hamja’ was also stated on another card found at the village.
“The words on the (second) card is ‘Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo(Sabah). It has a signature of ‘Datu Raja Muda Agbimuddin Kiram, Royal Defence Minister’,” he said.
He said the name appeared again on a piece of paper bearing the words ‘Sultanate of Sulu’ at the top.
Thirty accused, comprising 27 Filipinos and three local residents, are being tried in the case, in which some are facing multiple charges of being members of a terrorist group or waging war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, recruiting members for a terrorist group or willfully harbouring individuals they knew to be members of a terrorist group.
They allegedly committed the offences between Feb 12 and April 10 last year.
The hearing before Justice Stephen Chung at the Sabah Prisons Department continues today. — Bernama