A North Korean citizen previously linked to the death of Kim Jong Nam will be released and deported due to lack of evidence, Malaysia’s Attorney General Mohamad Apandi Ali said on Thursday.

Ri Jong Chol was taken into custody on February 17, believed by authorities to be linked to the murder just four days earlier of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong Un, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

He will be handed over to immigration authorities on tomorrow, according to Deputy Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Noor Rashid Ibrahim.

The news comes on the same day that Malaysia’s deputy prime