Malaysian police have smashed an international drug smuggling ring, seizing 46 kilogrammes of heroin and other drugs worth 15 million dollars, news reports said Monday.
Police also arrested 12 people including four Singaporeans and a Thai national as part of the operation in southern Johor state neighouring Singapore, the Star newspaper said."This is the biggest seizure of heroin in the country this year," national anti-drug chief Zul Hasnan Najib Baharuddin was quoted saying by the newspaper.Ten of them will be charged with trafficking, a charge that carries the mandatory death sentence if they are found guilty, the New Straits Times said.
As well as the 46 kilogrammes of heroin, (101 pounds), 11,316 ecstasy pills were seized, all of which police believed were going to be smuggled overseas, the newspapers said.Police also confiscated 1.0 million ringgit in cash (313,653 dollars) and several luxury vehicles in a series of raids in the southern state.The raids follow another by police earlier this month, also in Johor, in which 11 foreigners and two Malaysians were arrested, ten of whom have since been charged in court with trafficking.In the earlier raid police seized 260 kilogrammes of methamphetamines, and chemicals used to manufacture the drug in a haul worth more than 44 million ringgit.Police believe Malaysia is a major transit route for drug smuggling for the Australian market and other Asia Pacific countries.
It is an offence to consume drugs in Malaysia where it is a major social problem with approximately 750,000 drug addicts in the country.
Police also arrested 12 people including four Singaporeans and a Thai national as part of the operation in southern Johor state neighouring Singapore, the Star newspaper said."This is the biggest seizure of heroin in the country this year," national anti-drug chief Zul Hasnan Najib Baharuddin was quoted saying by the newspaper.Ten of them will be charged with trafficking, a charge that carries the mandatory death sentence if they are found guilty, the New Straits Times said.As well as the 46 kilogrammes of heroin, (101 pounds), 11,316 ecstasy pills were seized, all of which police believed were going to be smuggled overseas, the newspapers said.Police also confiscated 1.0 million ringgit in cash (313,653 dollars) and several luxury vehicles in a series of raids in the southern state.The raids follow another by police earlier this month, also in Johor, in which 11 foreigners and two Malaysians were arrested, ten of whom have since been charged in court with trafficking.In the earlier raid police seized 260 kilogrammes of methamphetamines, and chemicals used to manufacture the drug in a haul worth more than 44 million ringgit.Police believe Malaysia is a major transit route for drug smuggling for the Australian market and other Asia Pacific countries.
It is an offence to consume drugs in Malaysia where it is a major social problem with approximately 750,000 drug addicts in the country.
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