An investigation has been re-opened nearly a decade after a model’s shocking death… Except now it’s a HOMICIDE investigation.
In December of 2017, Dutch model Ivana Smit’s naked body was found dead on a sixth-story hotel balcony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She had fallen over 200ft from the 20th-story balcony above! At the time, Bitcoin millionaire Alexander Johnson and his wife Luna fessed up to having a threesome with the 18-year-old that very same night — but crucially denied any involvement in her death. They claimed to have been asleep when it happened. Hmm.
Two years later in 2019, a coroner finally ruled Smit’s manner of death was “misadventure” — that she simply fell from a higher balcony, and the investigation was dropped.
Seems INSANE. But it’s worse when you see the details of what was ignored!
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Throughout the years, Smit’s mother Christina Verstappen has tried to appeal her daughter’s initial death ruling in an endless fight for justice. And now, Judge Roz Mawar Rozain has given her the okay to sue investigators for negligence! And now a whole slew of new information has come out!
According to The US Sun, cops at the time failed to take DNA samples from Smit’s body in order to determine if anyone had been involved in her fatal fall. Get this: DNA belonging to Johnson was found two months later — under Smit’s fingernails! But that sat on file indefinitely!
Now, that could have easily been from the threesome… But it could have also been from a struggle. That’s why you investigate. So the millionaire should have been detained, ordered to stay in the country and answer questions, right? Except he was allowed to leave shortly after a brief interview without any plans for further interrogations or ANYTHING!
That’s SO messed up!
With all this said, authorities have been ordered to re-open the case and pay Smit’s mother $1.1 million in damages. The family’s attorney Datuk Sankara Nair told reporters:
“This judgment is historic and sets an example of the responsibility that senior police officers and authorities must shoulder in conducting proper investigations into unnatural and suspicious deaths.”
We’re so glad Smit’s mother is being compensated. This whole case is truly messed up but we hope this is just step one to justice being served!
[Images via Ivana Smit/Instagram]
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