Attorney general said that there was insufficient evidence to charge Ri Jong Chol (Reuters)
Malaysia will on Friday release and deport a North Korean held in custody by police investigating the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader, Attorney General Mohamed Apandi Ali told Reuters on Thursday.
The attorney general said in a text message that there was insufficient evidence to charge Ri Jong Chol, who had been arrested in Kuala Lumpur four days after the Feb. 13 murder. Ri held a work permit that had been valid till February 6, 2017.
Malaysia has charged a Indonesian woman and a Vietnamese woman with murder. Police also want to question seven other North Koreans, including a senior official in the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
(Reporting by Joseph Sipalan; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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