79 FOREIGN DRUG DEALERS DETAINED FOR TRAFFICKING DRUGS WORTH US$3.6 MIL

KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 (Bernama) -- Seventy-nine suspected members of 10 international drug trafficking syndicates were arrested while drugs valued at RM10.8 million (US$3.550 million) were seized by Kuala Lumpur police last year.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Zulkifli Abdullah said the syndicates distributed 58.2kg of syabu, ketamine (20.3kg) and cannabis (36.5kg) in the Klang Valley (Kuala Lumpur and its surrounding areas).


He said 48 of them were detained under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act, 14 under Section 39A (2) of the act, and 17 under Section 39A (1) of the act.

The alleged drug traffickers are from Singapore, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Indonesia and Iran, he told reporters here Tuesday.

Zulkifli said in the first two months of this year, 39 suspected foreign drug dealers were detained for distributing heroin, cocaine, eramine 5 and Ecstasy pills, and ecstasy powder.