FOUR FOREIGNERS DETAINED FOR SUSPECTED DRUG TRAFFICKING

KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 (Bernama) -- An Indonesian couple, a Pakistani man and
an Indian woman, aged between 28 and 48, were arrested on suspicion of being
involved in drug trafficking during a raid on a luxury condominium in Jalan
Ampang Hilir, here on Friday.

Head of the Kuala Lumpur Narcotics Crime Investigation Department, ACP Kang
Chez Chiang said that during the raid at 10.30 pm, police seized six plastic
packets containing heroin while some of the drugs were hidden in the battery
compartment of a laptop computer.

"The heroin weighed a total of 2.8kg and estimated to be worth more than
RM200,000," he told reporters at the Kuala Lumpur Police Headquarters.

He said police also seized cash totaling RM6,045, USD1,000 and Indonesian
Rupiah 845,000 as well as six handphones of various brands.

Kang said the group, who were believed to have been trafficking drugs for
the last six months, were also the first group to hide the drugs in laptop
computers.


"Preliminary police investigation revealed that the Pakistani man works as a
clothes salesman in the Klang Valley while his Indian national girlfriend is
unemployed.

"The Indonesian man worked as a dance teacher in Indonesia while his
wife
was a singer there," he said.

The seized heroin were believed to have been smuggled from Pakistan and
Afghanistan to be sold in the Indonesian market.

-- BERNAMA