A Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) employee told the High Court in Shah Alam today that the leak of a video allegedly showing the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, at KLIA2 (klia), has nothing to do with the airport operating company.
MAHB security assistant G Shankar, 31, said the company was not responsible for leaking the airport's CCTV camera footage released by Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV a few days after the assassination.
Shankar, who was instructed by investigating officer Wan Azirul Nizam Che Wan Aziz to copy the CCTV footage into a DVD, said police investigation had revealed that the footage shown on Fuji TV was not from his department.
In reply to lawyer Gooi Soon Seng representing Siti Aisyah (photo), one of the accused from Indonesia, during cross-examination, Shankar said the police had recorded statements from all personnel in his department, himself included, but none of them was charged in regard to the incident.
“I saw the viral video on Facebook... police have confirmed that the video was not from MAHB,” said the man who has been working with the company for the past 12 years.
Shankar said he agreed with Gooi’s suggestion that there was a leak, but disagreed that it was from his folder or DVD because the access to the folder was protected by a password known only to him.
The 30th witness said he had never revealed the password to anyone.
When replying to deputy public prosecutor Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin, the witness said not all the footage from the airport’s CCTV were released by Fuji TV.
“I copied the whole footage into six DVDs, but the viral video was taken only from one DVD,” he said.
Shankar was testifying in a trial of Siti Aisyah, 26, and Doan Thi Huong, 29, a Vietnamese woman, who were charged together with four others still at large, with murdering Kim at the departure hall of KLIA2 in Sepang, at 9 am on Feb 13, 2017.
They were charge under Section 302 of the Penal Code, which carries a mandatory death penalty upon conviction.
The trial before Judge Azmi Ariffin continues tomorrow.
- Bernama