Tourist nabbed at KLIA with 5.8kg of drugs

Big haul: Khazali (centre) and other Customs officers showing the methamphetamine found hidden inside the Indian man’s bag of chewing tobacco during the press conference in Sepang.

SEPANG: The Customs Depart­ment scored a major success when it foiled an attempt by an Indian national to smuggle in 5.8kg of methamphetamine worth RM1.1mil at KL International Airport.

Its director-general Datuk Seri Khazali Ahmad said the 39-year-old man was nabbed at 7.40pm on Wednesday, shortly after he arrived at KLIA from Bengaluru, India with his baggage.