Malaysian police nab four men in US$2.96 million drug bust

SHAH ALAM (Malaysia), Dec 8 (Bernama) -- Malaysian police have seized RM13.26 million (US$2.96 million) worth of methamphetamine and arrested four men including a private college student in two raids in Putrajaya. The state of Selangor police chief Arjunaidi Mohamed said the suspects, aged between 22 and 37, who acted as transporters, were arrested in the first raid while they were transferring drugs to dealers in the parking area of a shopping centre at about 1.40 pm last Monday. As a result, police seized 350 Chinese tea plastic packages containing what is believed to be drugs weighing 355.75 kilogrammes (kg) in a vehicle in the parking lot. "In the second raid on a condominium, police confiscated 22 green plastic packages labelled as Chinese tea and one transparent plastic. "All of these packages contain syabu (methamphetamine) weighing 23.09 kg which was found in a room of the condominium unit," he told a press conference here Thursday. He said the drug supply is believed to have been obtained from neighbouring countries to be marketed around the Klang Valley. "The suspects have records under Sections 39B and 12 (A) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 as well as Sections 394 and 395/170 of the Penal Code. "The results of their urine tests show only two suspects were positive for drugs, namely tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and Opiate," he said. He added that all the suspects have been remanded for seven days under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code. -- BERNAMA