Amri’s wife, Norhayati Ariffin, said they had adopted four children, all of whom they sent to Thailand.

“We adopted these children with the consent of their parents. They studied in Thailand at the same private boarding school.”

She said she had gone to visit them once but could not remember the school’s location. When questioned further, she said she was not sure what they had studied there.

Norhayati was speaking on the second day of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) inquiry into her husband’s disappearance.

Suhakam commissioner Mah Weng Kwai questioned Norhayati’s statement, asking how she could have no knowledge on the whereabouts of her own children.

“How could you not know which school or where the school was located, as the children had studied there for five years?” he asked.

Norhayati replied that Amri was the one who had sent them to the school, and that they were no longer studying there.

“Two of them and one child of my own are furthering their studies in Iran. They are learning the Persian language there.”

She added that she was not sure what they were studying in Iran, but that the institution was not in Tehran.

“They got a scholarship to study there and there’s nothing wrong with sending them there,” she said.

When asked by Mah who had paid for their studies in Iran, Norhayati said all three had obtained scholarships.

Sentul OCPD R Munusamy, who was there as a police observer, then questioned Norhayati on Amri’s NGO, Perlis Hope, asking her for the names of the organisation’s committee members.

He added that Amri’s name was not included in records from the Registrar of Societies.

Norhayati said she was unsure of all the names, but mentioned Ali Kasim and Asrul.

“The rest, I’m unsure,” she said.

She confirmed however that the organisation’s treasurer was her brother, Nor Hafizal Nor Amri.

She added that she was one of the NGO’s donors, although she did not know who else had donated to the organisation.

“Volunteers and anyone else can also donate. I am not part of the committee, so I don’t know about the donors and its (the organisation’s) finances.”

When asked about Amri’s personal life, she said he had an ex-wife from before they got married in 1997, but that he currently had no other wives. She added that Amri had no children with his previous wife.

Munusamy also questioned Norhayati on Amri’s relationship with Mohidul Domlux, also known as Din, the secretary of Thailand’s interior ministry.

He asked her to explain what had happened on Nov 24, 2016, when Amri returned home after spending three days in Thailand.

Norhayati said Amri had come back in the morning, and that she was told he had met Din in Hat Yai.

When Munusamy said there were no immigration records of Amri entering or exiting the country on those dates, she agreed.

Amri, who co-founded Perlis Hope, has been missing since Nov 24, 2016.

Norhayati previously said that five vehicles had blocked Amri’s car before he was whisked away, just 550 metres from their home in Bukit Chabang, Perlis.