Cops foil bid to smuggle drugs worth over RM1mil into East M’sia


(Second from left) ACP Imran said that the drugs were hidden inside electrical devices in order to trick the authorities.

SEPANG: Over RM1mil in drugs were seized after police thwarted attempts to smuggle suspected syabu into Sabah and Sarawak.

KLIA OCPD Asst Comm Imran Abd Rahman, at a press conference on Thursday (May 19) at the Airport Management Centre building here, said that the drugs were seized in two incidents at the KLIA cargo complex.

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