M'SIAN POLICE SEVERE IRANIAN-LINKED DRUG PIPELINE

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 (Bernama) -- The police have severed a drug pipeline,
believed to have been linked to Iranian traffickers, with the seizure of syabu
worth about RM4.6 million (US$1.48 million) at a double-storey terrace house
here.

The house had doubled as a drug-processing laboratory, and was rented by an
Iranian who has since gone into hiding.

The drug, also known as 'ice' in underground lingo, weighed 27kg in liquid form
when a police team raided the building last Friday.

City Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department chief Assistant
Commissioner Kang Chez Chiang said Monday, the police seized several
drug-processing paraphernalia in the 9.20am raid.

He said the raid was mounted, following a tip-off from the house owner who
suspected something amiss.

"We are now in the midst of tracking down the fugitive Iranian, in his 30s, who
is believed to be linked to another police raid on a drug processing laboratory
at a house, near here last July," he added.

In the earlier raid on July 22, the house was found to have been rented by
another Iranian when the police seized 200kg of syabu at the premises.

Following the seizure, a 39-year-old Iranian man was detained at a nearby
fast-food restaurant to facilitate investigations.

The following day, the suspect's 34-year-old wife was picked up at the couple's
house.