Cops probe Pahang royalty implicated in nightclub knife attack

Cops probe Pahang royalty implicated in nightclub knife attack

Qistina Nadia Dzulqarnain
Published: Jun 13, 2025 4:27 PM
Updated: Jun 14, 2025 8:58 AM



Summary

• A man claims he was assaulted and stabbed in the rear by a Pahang royal at a Kuantan nightclub on May 8 following a prior encounter.

• The victim alleges he was coerced into giving RM1,200 and apologising before being attacked by the royal and a bodyguard.

• Police confirm investigations and an arrest under Section 324 of the Penal Code.

Police are investigating a member of the Pahang royal family who allegedly stabbed a man in a Kuantan nightclub last month.

When contacted, Kuantan district police chief Wan Zahari Wan Busu confirmed receiving a report on the incident.

He also told Malaysiakini that an arrest has been made to facilitate investigations into the case.

However, he declined to confirm whether the royalty mentioned in the report was the individual arrested, instead saying: “We have arrested and summoned for questioning those involved (in the case)”.

Wan Zahari also did not confirm the royalty named as implicated in the police report.

He added that investigations are being conducted under Section 324 of the Penal Code for voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means.

Wan Zahari said the investigation paper on the case will be referred to the deputy public prosecutor once the probes are completed “in the near future”.

Malaysiakini has contacted the Pahang palace for comment.

According to a June 5 police report making the rounds on social media, the incident occurred in the early morning of May 8 at a nightclub in the state’s capital.

The 30-year-old complainant claimed that he was urged by his friend to go to the nightclub due to an earlier occurrence at a separate entertainment establishment, where he was said to have bumped into the royalty figure twice.

The complainant said that when he arrived at the second nightclub with two of his relatives, a man believed to be an aide to the royalty had asked him how he would like to resolve the matter.

After his offer to purchase beers for the royalty was rejected, the aide had then allegedly suggested that the complainant offer an “angpau” to the royalty, following which RM1,200 was handed over.

However, the aide supposedly told the complainant to apologise to the royalty directly, after which the victim, his relatives, and a staffer were brought to a karaoke room on the second floor to face the royalty.

Besides questioning whether the complainant was drunk, the royalty also allegedly scolded the victim for bumping into him earlier.


Massive blood loss

The situation took a turn for the worse when the royalty invited the victim to sit on a sofa before purportedly “signalling” to his bodyguard, who then hit the complainant’s head with a glass jug.

The royalty is also said to have brandished a folding knife and ostensibly stabbed the victim in the buttocks before the nightclub staffer managed to restrain the royalty and his bodyguard.

The victim claims he had to be brought to a hospital afterwards as he suffered significant wounds and massive loss of blood due to the stabbing.

Worker stabbed, shot at

A Pahang royal was implicated last year in an attack against road construction worker Alias Awang, who was allegedly stabbed and shot at.

Alias told Malaysiakini in September last year that the incident had occurred earlier on June 6, during which he was attacked by around 20 people, including “the son of the son of the Tengku (a royal title)”, who also shot at his leg and missed.

Following the assault in which Alias claims he was stabbed in the right thigh with a knife, he had then lodged a police report on June 8.

Alias Awang


Responding to the incident, Pahang Crown Prince Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah had called for justice multiple times, stressing that no one, even “royalty”, is above the law.

About two months after Malaysiakini’s initial report, a member of the Pahang royal family, Tengku Eddie Akasya Tengku Abd Rahman, and four other individuals were charged in the Kuantan Magistrate’s Court for injuring a man using a knife.

Tengku Eddie, 21, is the nephew of the Pahang ruler, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah.