KUALA LUMPUR: The young Filipina who was caught with more than 5kg of cocaine at the KL International Airport on Tuesday is just a small player in an international web of drug smuggling, police here believe.
The 25-year-old stunner was probably just one of the many men and women used by a suspected West African syndicate as mules to courier drugs, said Federal narcotics department director Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd Najib Abdul Aziz.
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