High profile businessman’s youngest son arrested over father’s murder

13 September 2021 08:39 am Views - 1088

By Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya 

The CID yesterday arrested the son of Shabbir Abbas Gulamhusein, a well-known businessman, over his father’s murder four years ago, Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said. 

On June 9, 2017, Shabbir Abbas Gulamhusein passed away inside his office premises in Colombo.
However, an investigation was launched into the suspicious death on a complaint received by the Public Complaints Division of the CID in 2018. The victim was the owner of nine companies, including Adam Expo Limited.


The body of Gulamhusein, was exhumed in 2019 and his remains were sent for a post-mortem.