Customs seizes 30kg of drugs in bag of
vegetables from Indian national at KLIA
A team of enforcement officers seized a package containing 5kg of syabu and five other packages of ketamine weighing 25kg from the cook who worked at a restaurant in Malaysia.
The drugs are worth about RM1.8 million.
The drugs are worth about RM1.8 million.
KLIA Customs director Datuk Chik Omar Chik Lim said the 44-year-old suspect who arrived from Chennai was nabbed at 12.10am, following the discovery of the drugs in a bag of vegetables.
"The drugs were not hidden. This is the largest seizure from one individual this year. Last year, another Indian national was caught carrying 42kg of drugs," he told a press conference here today.
Chik Omar said the suspect had worked as a cook in the country in the last five years and had travelled eight times to Malaysia.
In another case, customs officers nabbed a Chinese national who arrived in KLIA from Guangzhou last Thursday, after stumbling on 28 boxes containing 310 marker pens stuffed with 2.1kg of syabu worth RM399,000.
"This is the first case of trafficking drugs using marker pens. The suspect who works as a restaurant waitress in her country was on her first visit to Malaysia," said Chik Omar.
Yesterday, a 26-year-old Chinese woman who arrived from Cheng Du was caught at the Low Cost Carrier Terminal at 9.50pm, on suspicion of carrying 2.52kg of syabu worth RM478,000.
"An inspection of her baggage found six packages of tea leaves and a box of custard pie containing drugs, apart from a box of snacks which contained eight packages of drugs wrapped in carbon paper," said Chik Omar.
All three suspects have been remanded for seven days to facilitate investigations under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 which carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction.-- BERNAMA
