A Malaysian court remanded popular rapper Namewee in custody on Monday, his lawyer said, part of a murder investigation looking into the death of a Tawainese influencer in a Kuala Lumpur hotel room.

Namewee, whose real name is Wee Meng Chee, handed himself over to police on Wednesday after he was named a "person of interest" in the probe into the death of Iris Hsieh, also known as Hsieh Yu-hsin, or "nurse goddess" to fans.

The 31-year-old influencer was found dead on October 22 in a bathtub at a high-end hotel in the Malaysian capital. She was in Malaysia to discuss a commercial video Namewee had agreed to direct, her social media manager told the BBC .

The probe was reclassified from a "sudden death report" to a murder case, with police saying they wanted to question Namewee, believ

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