Jong-nam murder trial: MAHB not behind leaked CCTV recording, court told

SHAH ALAM: The Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) was not responsible in leaking a CCTV recording that showed North Korean Kim Chol murder at the KL International Airport 2 (KLIA2), the High Court was told.

 

Kim Chol is the alias used by Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, whenever he travelled.

 

The leaked CCTV recording was taken from the airport’s CCTV footage and aired on Fuji TV in Japan a few days after the incident on Feb 13, last year. 

 

MAHB security assistant G. Shankar, 31, who was responsible in making copies of the CCTV footage at KLIA2 to a DVD format and handing it over to the investigating officer, testified that MAHB was not involved in the leakage. 

 

Shankar was the 30th witness at the trial of Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 26, and Vietnamese national Doan Thi Huong, 29, who are charged with four others still at large with murdering Kim Chol, 45, at the departure hall of KLIA2 at 9am on Feb 13 last year.

 

 

To a question by defence lawyer Gooi Soon Seng, who represented Siti Aisyah, Shankar said the police had investigated the leak and took statements from all of the employees at his department a week after the recording was aired in Japan.

 

None of the MAHB employees was charged in court on the matter, he said.  

 

“The police confirmed that the viral video was not from MAHB,” Shankar said Tuesday (Jan 23).

  

The witness also admit that he had seen the video being shared on Facebook. 

 

He agreed to Gooi’s suggestion that there was a leak but did not agree it came from the digital folder that he created on a desktop or a DVD that he burned as the files were password protected. 

 

“Only I know the password and I did not reveal it to anybody,” he said. 

During re-examination by DPP Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin, the witness said not all of the recordings from the CCTV were aired by Fuji TV. 

 

“I made the recordings into six DVDs but the one that was aired was the content from only one DVD,” he said. 

 

The hearing continues before Justice Azmi Ariffin on Wednesday (Jan 24).