POLICE FOIL IRANIAN'S ATTEMPT TO SMUGGLE DRUGS USING A CORSET

SHAH ALAM (Malaysia), March 15 (Bernama) -- An Iranian's attempt to smuggle
in 2.2kg of drugs worth RM550,000 (US$161,764), using a corset around his waist,
was foiled by police at the KL International Airport (KLIA)on Thursday.

Selangor state Narcotics Department chief ACP Nordin Kadir said it was a new
tactic used by drug smuggling syndicates, especially by Iranians, after many
prior attempts to use secret compartments in their luggage for such purposes,
had failed.

A 41-year-old, Iranian man, who arrived here from Dubai at about 10.30pm on
Thursday, was behaving suspiciously at the baggage claim area and when police
conducted a check on him, a corset that he was wearing around his waist, was
filled with 2.2kg of syabu, he said.

"This is a new tactic used by drug smuggling syndicates because attempts to
do so using other methods had failed," he told reporters here Monday.

He added that on the same day, police detained another Iranian man, aged 40,
a carpet seller, at his apartment and seized eight bottles of syabu weighing
170gm, worth about RM51,000 ((US$15,000).

Nordin said the man had been living in Malaysia for five years.

Meanwhile, in another raid Sunday morning, the Petaling Jaya Narcotics Unit
seized 1.2 kg ketamin, 7,000 Eramin 5 pills and RM67,000(US$19,705) cash from a
house, believed to be money from the sales of drugs and detained a 35-year-old
man, a local.

The drugs are worth about RM152,500 (US$44,852) on the streets, he said.

Nordin said after carrying out investigations, police managed to
arrest another man, aged 40 at about 5.10pm Sunday at a car park in Taman
Muda, Petaling Jaya.

The man, also a local who was in a Proton Saga had tried to escape but
police managed to detain him before finding 10,000 Eramin 5 pills in a bag and
another 2kg of syabu on the front passenger seat.

He added that from Thursday to Sunday, police had seized drugs and pills
worth about RM1.04 million (about US$305,882).
-- BERNAMA


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