Customs foils bid to smuggle in RM15.6mil worth of ketamine

Customs deputy director-general (enforcement & compliance) Datuk Sazali Mohamad (second from left) showing the drums and ketamine that were seized in Pandan Indah in Kuala Lumpur. Photo courtesy of Customs Department.

SEREMBAN: The Royal Malaysian Customs Department believes it has intercepted an international drug trafficking attempt following the seizure of some 260kg of ketamine worth an estimated RM15.6mil.

Its deputy director-general (Enforcement & Compliance) Datuk Sazali Mohamad said the drugs were found concealed in five drums and abandoned at a dead end of a road in a residential area in Pandan Indah, Kuala Lumpur on Nov 21.