NILAI: The 3,200kg of cocaine, the largest seizure to date and worth an estimated RM640mil, came in from Ecuador and was meant to be smuggled to a third country, says Datuk Seri Paddy Abdul Halim.
The Customs director-general said Malaysia was merely a transit point and that initial investigations revealed that the illicit drug was not meant for the domestic market.
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