KUALA LUMPUR: An office unit claimed to be the Malaysian headquarters of a North Korea spy agency clandestinely running an arms operation was found to have been vacated.
The office, which was said to be the premises of Glocom – a front company run by the North Korean intelligence agency – was besieged by local and international media after news of its existence broke.
The unmarked door to the office, located on the second floor of a building at Jalan Thambipillay, Brickfields, here, was locked and media members’ repeated ringing of the door’s bell went unanswered.
Md Jaya Md Din, 57, who has been renting a unit in the same building for the past 10 years, said he has never met the tenants on the second floor.
“I have been working on (the first level) for 10 years now, and I have never met the (second floor) tenants. I knew that the office was occupied, because there are letters being (mailed there), and its post-office box will be cleared… but I have never met them.
“My friends who occupy the level (above theirs) said (the second level tenants) would sometimes come on Saturday,” he said, adding that the four-storey building rarely receives any visitors.
A United Nations report, which was drafted for the Security Council and cited by Reuters in a news piece, noted that Glocom has been selling battlefield radio equipment in violation of United Nations sanctions.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar refused to comment on the matter when contacted.