KUALA LUMPUR: Some RM3.85mil worth of drugs were seized following six raids across the Klang Valley.
The drug syndicate used condominiums as storage facilities, said Kuala Lumpur police chief Comm Datuk Fadil Marsus.
He said the drugs could have been supplied to 1.7 million users.
“Three Malaysian men and three foreign women aged between 33 and 61 were detained during the raids,” he told reporters yesterday.
He said the raids, carried out between Oct 14 and 17, began at 1.10pm with police arresting a man inside a car at a supermarket parking lot in Cheras.
A total of 1,000 plastic packets containing suspected methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) powder weighing 18.3kg were found, he added.
Comm Fadil said the second raid, about 20 minutes later, was conducted at a roadside in Pandan Perdana, Ampang Jaya, where another Malaysian man was arrested.
“Further investigations led police to a house in the area, where a foreign woman was arrested and various drugs were seized, including 990g of MDMA powder, 195g of Erimin 5 pills, 32.78g of ketamine and 52.81g of ecstasy pills,” he said.
Comm Fadil said the third raid on Oct 15 took place at a condominium unit in Pandan Perdana, where another foreign woman was detained. A canvas bag containing three transparent plastic packages with 1.2kg of MDMA powder was found.
“In the fourth raid, one foreign woman was arrested outside the same condominium with a bag containing six plastic packets of suspected MDMA weighing 215g,” he added.
A subsequent inspection inside the condominium led to a major seizure – 7,650 plastic packets of suspected MDMA weighing 419.7kg along with four plastic containers containing 22.1kg of MDMA powder and drug-processing equipment.
Comm Fadil said the final operation, conducted at 10.10pm on Oct 17, resulted in the arrest of a Malaysian man at a supermarket car park along Jalan Imbi.
“Checks on the car found 38.7kg of cannabis buds,” he said.
Initial investigations revealed that the syndicate used condominium units as drug storage facilities and car parks as transaction points, he said.
“The syndicate has been active since February,” he added.
Comm Fadil said background checks revealed that two suspects had prior criminal records.
“All of them have been remanded for seven days to assist in investigations.
“We also seized RM10,400 in cash, jewellery and watches believed to be linked to the operation,” he added.
