Klia2 CCTV supervisors absolved of leaking Kim Jong-Nam attack footage

SHAH ALAM: The team responsible for the CCTV surveillance footage at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2) were absolved by the police, following leakage of the video footage which appeared on a foreign news channel, showing the alleged attack on Kim Jong-Nam, the High Court, heard here today.
The 30th prosecution witness, klia2 CCTV supervisor G. Shankar, 31, told the court that he was uncertain as to how the video footage got leaked and was eventually broadcast by the Japanese television channel Fuji TV, almost a week after the incident.
"The police took statements from the entire security team at the airport. According to the police it was not anyone from Malaysian Airports Berhad (MAB)," he answered during the cross examination by defense counsel Gooi Soon Seng.
Admitting to have watched the Fuji TV video in question on Facebook, Shankar also testified that no one was subsequently charged over the leak.
"I am not sure whether it was on Youtube but I did watch the video in question. Only parts of the video in question was leaked, not its entirety," he said before High Court Judge Datuk Azmi Ariffin.
In response to Gooi's question of whether parts of the clip were derived from at least five of the six DVDs of the recordings prepared by Shankar for the police, he said parts of the video came from only one DVD.
"The leaked video had only some parts which was derived from one DVD that I had recorded, but it was not as sharp or detailed as the one I had produced," he added.
The trial resumes tomorrow.
The low quality security camera footage which was broadcast by Fuji TV on Feb 19 depicted the alleged attack by the two female suspects on Jong-Nam, before the North Korean subsequently went to the airport clinic for treatment.
Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, 29, along with four others still at large, were charged with the murder of Kim Chol, 45, at the klia2 departure hall at 9am on Feb 13 last year.
Jong-nam, who travelled with a passport bearing the name of Kim Chol, died while on the way to the Putrajaya Hospital. He arrived in the country on Feb 6.
It was reported that Jong-nam was at klia2 on Feb 13 to board a flight to Macau when two women approached and suddenly wiped his face with toxic liquid, which was later identified as the VX nerve agent.
The murder charge under Section 302 of the Penal Code carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction.