He said the samples taken from The Verve Suite on Thursday, was part of health procedures and would be sent to the Chemistry Department for analysis.
“We however cannot confirm specifically if the samples taken are liquid or chemical. Nothing positive can be confirmed yet as it is still being examined,” he told reporters after officiating the JomFest Carnival-BigFood Festival here, today.
Abdul Samah also denied a report by a local English media that a man was arrested following the raid, and said no new arrest was made.
Commenting further on the investigation, he said police were now working closely with the Chemistry Department, Forensic Department and the Malaysian Nuclear Agency to investigate if the chemical used in the killing of Jong Nam had radioactive effects.
Asked if there had been any news from the North Korean Embassy regarding an individual the police were seeking to assist in the investigation, Abdul Samah said no officials from the embassy had come forward to hand over the wanted individual to date.
He said the police would continue to give a reasonable period to the embassy to hand over the wanted individual.
“Regardless of the diplomatic immunity, police will exercise all of its power to call anyone to assist in the probe as the case is being investigated as a criminal matter,” he added.
Jong Nam, the older half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was at the KL International Airport 2 (klia2) at 8am on Feb 13 waiting to board a flight to Macau when he was attacked by two women. One sprayed a rapid-acting poison at him, believed to have traces of the VX nerve agent, while the other covered his face with a piece of cloth.
Jong-nam, who had come to Malaysia on Feb 6 and carried a passport bearing the name Kim Chol, died on the way to the Putrajaya Hospital.
Following Jong-nam’s murder, the police have arrested four people – two women, one holding an Indonesian passport and the other a Vietnamese passport; and two men, one a Malaysian and the other a North Korean.
The Malaysian has been released on police bail.