Dutch model's body released to family (Updated)

KUALA LUMPUR: Police have confirmed that the remains of Dutch model Ivana Esther Robert Smit have been released to her family.
"We released Ivana's remains yesterday," a highly placed source said when contacted by theSun without elaborating on who made the claim.
He declined to comment further.
Earlier, the family's lawyer Sébas Diekstra also said her remains had been returned to her family.
According to an online newsportal, DutchNews, it was reported that Diekstra said the priority now was to have her body brought back to the Netherlands.
"Only then can we ask what additional information about Ivana's death might be available," he was quoted as saying.
On Wednesday, the family's lawyers, through a letter, sought Malaysia's permission for them to claim her body and an update on the probe into her death.
The letter, written in Dutch, was issued by Diekstra on behalf of her father Marcel Smit and his wife, C. Verstappen.
In the Dec 7 incident, Ivana,19 was found dead on the balcony of the sixth floor of an apartment building in Jalan Dang Wangi, where she had stayed with an American man and his wife from Kazakhstan on the 20th floor.
Earlier, she was reported to have gone out to an entertainment outlet with the couple.
Ivana, who had dual Dutch and Belgian citizenship, was the second runner-up in the Malaysia Supermodel Search 2014 when she was 15 years old.
Police have recorded statements from 48 people to facilitate investigations into the incident and it remains classified as a sudden death so far.