SEPANG: Police will cooperate with the Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) to check all the locations visited by the suspects in the murder case of Kim Jong-nam in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2) on Feb 13.
Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the collaboration was due to the possibility of radioactive waste from the use of the chemical ‘Ethyl S-2-Diisopropylaminoethyl Methylphonothiolate or VX nerve agent as a chemical weapon.
Previously a preliminary analysis by the Malaysian Chemistry Department revealed the VX nerve agent that was associated with the death of Jong-nam, elder half-brother of North Korean Kim Jong-un.
“We will get the AELB forensic experts to go to the locations to sweep and to see whether the radioactive waste is still there,” he told reporters yesterday at the KLIA before leaving for Makkah to perform the ‘umrah’ (minor Haj).
This is the second time the media bumped into Khalid at KLIA.
Prior to that about 150 local and international media personnel had attended a media conference by the Immigration Department, Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) and Airlines Operating Committee on efforts to reduce waiting time at the airports with the hope of getting the latest updates on Jong-nam’s murder. – Bernama