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Cops seize 37kg of meth at KLIA
Tue, Oct 21, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR: Police thwarted an attempt to smuggle in 37kg of methamphetamine, valued at RM4 million, through Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) cargo on Sunday.
It is learnt that the drugs came in the form of eight packets, weighing about 4.6kg each, from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
Federal police Narcotics Department director Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim said the operation came about following the arrests of 11 people, including two drug syndicate kingpins, in connection with a 30.3kg methamphetamine shipment worth RM3 million which was seized on Oct 1.
Those arrested were nine Nigerian men, including the drug lords, a Tanzanian woman and a Malaysian woman. They were aged between 24 and 54.
“Following interrogation of the suspects, we were told that another shipment would arrive on Sunday via air cargo at KLIA.
Rashid said the drugs were concealed in brown-coloured paper and were flown from Addis Ababa via an Air Ethiopia flight.
“We also checked the addresses listed on the airway bill but all were fake.”
He said the drug lords were responsible for trafficking the drugs from Nigeria, South Africa and China into Malaysia, before distributing it into the local market and neighbouring countries like Indonesia.
In Sepang, KLIA Customs director Datuk Chik Omar Chik Lim said the department had managed to seize 7.4kg of methamphetamine worth RM1.4 million in four cases this month.
He said two suspects from China and one from Nigeria, with the latest being at 1.50am yesterday in which a woman from China was detained when she was found with 2.28kg of a methamphetamine powder in her luggage.
Chik Omar said the cases were being investigated under section 39(B) of the Dangerous Drugs Act which carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction.
He said the arrests and seizures this month were part of the 336kg of drugs worth RM58 million which was confiscated from January to October this year, with 17 foreigners having been detained.