Linda Khan, wife of the businessman, told this newspaper that the suspects, in the company of their attorneys, were being questioned in relation to their involvement in the crime.

The four accused who are still in police custody in separate cells are Cesar Paulo called `Buckley’, Domingo Pereira de Aquino, Adail Rodrigues Borges known as `Spider’, and Francisco Guimaraes known as `Hawk’.

Meanwhile, Linda said that they were still adamant that the body found by civil police in a savannah in the village of Sao Silvestre a few weeks ago was not that of Khan. A DNA test was to be performed on the bones, but as far as Linda was concerned, the test would confirm the family’s position. A police officer at Lethem said that the Brazilian authorities were still interested in doing the test even though the family was not. But Linda told Stabroek News on Tuesday that she was willing to co-operate with the civil police. Meanwhile, the body is at a morgue in Brazil, since nobody has come forward to claim it.

The results of the test, if done, could be expected in twenty days. Stabroek News was told that the body was more of a skeleton and the person appeared to have been killed a long time ago. Khan was taken off a 52-seat bus on June 22 bound for Manaus, by three men dressed in civil police uniforms. Authorities have arrested four persons all members of the Civil Police.