Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Kim Jong-nam, pictured in 2001, the past due part-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
Malaysian police are searching for two Indonesian ladies they would like to testify on the trial of these accused of killing Kim Jong-nam, the part-brother of North Korea’s chief Kim Jong-un.
Local media named the possible witnesses as Raisa Rinda Salma, 24, and Dessy Meyrisinta, 33.
Kim Jong-nam died at Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017, after toxic VX nerve agent was rubbed on his face.
Two ladies are being tried for his homicide.
They are Siti Aisyah from Indonesia and Doan Thi Houng from Vietnam.
Image copyright Reuters/AFP Image caption Doan Thi Huong (left) and Siti Aisyah (proper) say they were tricked by means of North Korean dealers into finishing up the killing
Defence attorneys say the 2 girls accused of murder were paid to participate in similar tricks at airports, accommodations and shopping malls in the days ahead of Kim’s dying.
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A legal professional representing Siti Aisyah previously informed a court in Malaysia that she had been paid FOUR,000 Malaysian ringgit (£730, $1,020) by means of a North Korean to fly to Macau, the place Kim was reportedly residing in self-imposed exile.
The two ladies face death via placing in the event that they are discovered accountable.
Media captionThe BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes retraces Kim Jong-nam’s closing steps
Pyongyang has denied any involvement in the murder, however four males – believed to be North Koreans who fled Malaysia at the day of the killing – have additionally been charged in the case. they continue to be at massive in spite of an Interpol “purple notice”, corresponding to a global arrest warrant.
Kim Jong-nam used to be in large part estranged from his circle of relatives, after being bypassed as heir to the North Korean management in favour of his younger half-brother. He spent so much of his time in another country in Macau, mainland China and Singapore.
He had spoken out in the prior in opposition to his circle of relatives’s dynastic regulate of North Korea and in a 2012 guide used to be quoted as pronouncing he believed his half-brother lacked management features.
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The accused girls are scheduled to present their defence at Malaysia’s Shah Alam Top Court Docket among November 2018 and February 2019.
