An official statement on the arrest would be issued later today, he said when contacted by Bernama.
Meanwhile, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Noor Rashid Ibrahim, when contacted, said police were expected to make several more arrests following the arrest of the first suspect, a female, at klia2 on Monday.
The woman was in possession of a Vietnamese passport bearing the name of “Doan Thi Huong”, and which listed her age as 29.
On Monday morning, Kim Chol was at the klia2 to board a 9am flight to Macau.
Foreign media had reported that Kim Chol was actually Kim Jong Nam, an elder half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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