TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Malaysian police urge Kim Jong Nam's kin to collect his items
In the public notice, Sepang district police chief ACP Wan Kamarul Azran Wan Yusof said the police are seeking the next of kin of Kim Chol, the name in the passport used by Kim Jong Nam when he entered Malaysia in February 2017, "to surrender his possessions in the form of cash."
Change Size
Kim Jong Nam arrives at Beijing airport in Beijing, China, in this photo taken by Kyodo February 11, 2007 (Reuters/Kyodo)
M
alaysian police said Tuesday the next of kin of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader, can come forward to collect his belongings, including cash, that have been left in police custody since his 2017 assassination.
In the public notice, Sepang district police chief ACP Wan Kamarul Azran Wan Yusof said the police are seeking the next of kin of Kim Chol, the name in the passport used by Kim Jong Nam when he entered Malaysia in February 2017, "to surrender his possessions in the form of cash."
If no relatives show up to collect the items within six months, "all the possessions of the deceased will be handed over to Malaysia's Treasury," the notice said.
Kim was killed on Feb. 13, 2017, at the departure hall of Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
During the trial, a police officer had testified that about $138,000 in various currencies were found in Kim's backpack, together with two mobile phones and a laptop, among others.
Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong were jointly charged, along with four North Koreans still at large, with killing Kim by swiping his face with the deadly nerve agent VX. Their acts were caught on airport security cameras.
Both women claimed they were duped by the North Koreans into thinking the act was for a television prank show and they did not know the substance was lethal.
After 17 months of the trial that started in October 2017, the prosecution unexpectedly withdrew the murder charge against Aisyah and she was freed and returned home to Indonesia following lobbying by the Indonesian government.
Pressure from the Vietnamese government saw Doan's murder charge reduced to that of "causing hurt" and she was given a three-year and four-month jail sentence which ran from the date of her arrest on Feb. 15, 2017.
She was released from prison and returned home in May 2019.
