A murder investigation has been initiated following the death of a teenage model who fell 200 feet after reportedly being involved in a threesome with an American Bitcoin tycoon and his wife.
Ivana Smit, 18, was found naked on the sixth floor balcony of a high rise in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpar in December 2017.
She is believed to have fallen from a 20th-floor apartment owned by Bitcoin tycoon Alexander Amado Johnson, 45, and wife, Luna, 32.
The couple acknowledges their involvement in a threesome with Ivana the night of her fall but deny any participation in her death, claiming they were asleep during the incident.
Cops had originally dismissed the Dutch model’s death as an accident caused by a drug overdose.
However, judges have allowed her mother, Christina Verstappen, to challenge the police’s “sudden death” ruling and file a lawsuit against the investigators on the grounds of negligence.
Now the investigation into the Malaysian police file has revealed a shocking catalogue of errors.
Cops at first apparently failed to harvest DNA evidence from Ivana’s body to see if anyone else had been involved in the tragic plunge.
Then, when they did find DNA belonging to Johnson under Ivana’s fingernails two months later, it sat on file without any action.
The High Court in Kuala Lumpur was informed that police permitted Johnson and Almazkyzy to leave the country a month later without any further questioning.
Now cops and prosecutors have been ordered to reopen the investigation and pay Ivana’s mother compensation and costs for her fight for justice.
A verdict on 29th July awarded the heartbroken mum nearly £200,000 in compensation for police negligence.
Christina has taken legal action against the Inspector-General of Police Dang Wangi, investigating officer ASP Faizal Abdullah, the government Home Minister, and the Malaysian government.
She said they had all failed in their statutory duties and had been negligent in their investigation into what caused her daughter’s death.
The judge also ordered that Abdullah be removed from the task force re-investigating the case.
Judge Roz Mawar Rozain said: “There were evidence preservation failures. There was inadequate witness and suspect handling.
“There was forensic evidence of neglect, and there was expert evidence of dismissal.
“The plaintiff is directly impacted, having endured harm that directly and predictably arose from the defendants’ failure to fulfill their duty,” the legal statement asserts.
She added: “This sequence of events reflects a fundamental breakdown in investigative procedures.
“The presence of DNA evidence linking a suspect to the deceased, especially under such suspicious circumstances, should have triggered prompt and decisive action to prevent the suspect from leaving the jurisdiction.”
A post-mortem at the time found Ivana to have cocaine, alcohol, and an amphetamine called PMMA in her blood.
The couple denied having given Smit drugs or taking any themselves on the night that she died.
