KUALA LUMPUR: A condominium owner's joy at having bought a luxury unit turned into horror when he found a dead body in a refrigerator.

More horrifying was that the body, believed to be that of an unidentified man, had been cut into 11 pieces and placed in five black garbage bags.

The owner, in his 30s, made the gruesome discovery when he went to clean the apartment located on the 19th floor of a condominium block in Mont Kiara here yesterday.

City CID chief Senior Asst Comm II Ku Chin Wah said the apartment had been vacant for more than three months.

He said that the man only received the keys to the apartment on Friday and had decided to clean up the property with his sister at 3pm yesterday.

When he opened the door he suspected something amiss when he smelt a strong stench and immediately called the security guards.

They found the body in a refrigerator which was sealed with masking tape, he said when met at the scene.

According to sources, the body was believed to have been in the refrigerator for about a week.

Police found a photocopy of a driving licence of one Nora Jawi Spreen Jawi with the address USJ2/4D Subang Jaya.