Kuala Lumpur police chief Rusdi Isa said that based on the post-mortem report by Putrajaya Hospital’s forensic and pathology department, the case is still classified as “sudden death”.

“A pathology expert from Sultan Idris Shah Hospital in Serdang conducted the post-mortem. The cause of death was determined to be compression of the neck due to ligature strangulation.

“According to the post-mortem report and the pathology expert’s statement, the investigation remains under ‘sudden death’,” he was quoted by Bernama as saying.

The victim’s family members were present to claim the body. However, they avoided media personnel and declined to be interviewed.

Rusdi had said yesterday police discovered the 45-year-old man unconscious, with his neck and legs bound with cable ties, on the floor of an office in the finance ministry.

Police, however, ruled out foul play as no criminal element was found at the scene and classified the case as “sudden death”.