Tea bags yield big bust


Large haul: Dr Janathan (centre) and Customs officers showing the seized drugs during a press conference in Kota Kinabalu.

KOTA KINABALU: In the second such case in a week, a man tried to walk through the Kota Kinabalu Inter­national Airport (KKIA) carrying more than RM3.5mil worth of syabu in his luggage but was stopped in his tracks.

Alert Customs officers spotted a box inside the man’s luggage via the scanner and suspected something amiss.

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