SHAH ALAM: Police successfully dismantled two drug trafficking syndicates in the Klang Valley with the arrest of five local men and seizure of 164kg of various drugs worth RM16.7mil in three separate raids on Tuesday (Sept 9) and Wednesday (Sept 10).
Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Shazeli Kahar stated that the suspects, aged between 18 and 47, were detained in raids carried out in Banting, Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2), and around Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday afternoon and early Wednesday morning.
In the first case, two local men were arrested in a car at a traffic light intersection in Banting at 3.45pm on Tuesday, while they were en route to Kuala Lumpur and a search of the vehicle uncovered 30 packages of ecstasy weighing 61.76kg and three packages of Erimin 5 weighing 9.85kg in the back seat.
The first suspect, a 47-year-old contractor and widower, had 18 prior offences on his criminal record, while the second suspect, a 42-year-old unemployed man, had 22 prior offences, both related to criminal and drug offences.
The value of the drugs seized in this case was RM13.6mil, along with a necklace and watch worth RM15,500.
In the second case, an 18-year-old male, believed to be a drug transporter, was apprehended at 5.10am on Tuesday while waiting for a flight to Sarawak.
He had allegedly made several previous attempts to smuggle drugs, receiving RM1,000 per delivery and a search of his luggage revealed five plastic packages containing 4.5kg of syabu.
This arrest led to a second raid on a condominium in Kuala Lumpur at 1.10pm the following day, where two more local men were detained while a search of the premises, used as a drug storage facility, uncovered 89 plastic packages of syabu weighing 86,795g and a white drum containing 5,850g of liquid syabu.
These two unemployed suspects were reportedly supplying syabu to the individual arrested at KLIA2 for distribution to Miri, Sarawak. The drug supply is believed to have originated from a neighbouring country.
One of these suspects had a prior criminal record, while the other two had none. Urine tests conducted on all three were negative for drugs. The estimated total value of the drugs seized in this case was RM3.7mil.
The five suspects are currently under a seven-day remand order under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code and are being investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.- Bernama
