Double drug ring takedown: Almost RM7mil worth drugs seized by Kelantan cops


KOTA BHARU (Bernama): Kelantan police busted two drug trafficking syndicates, known as "Mat Yo" and "Datin", detaining 13 individuals, including four Thai women, and seizing various types of drugs with a total value of almost RM7mil, in four separate raids conducted since Wednesday (May 5).

Kelantan police chief Datuk Deputy Comm Shafien Mamat said in the first raid on May 5, police arrested a 32-year-old local man in an apartment in Kota Bharu after finding a plastic bag with 14 packages inside, containing 84,000 reddish pills suspected to be drugs, worth around RM840,000, believed to belong to him.

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