IPOH: Police are keeping an eye on vehicle-towing activities after busting a drug trafficking operation worth more than RM23mil.
Drug syndicates are now using tow truck services on the pretext of towing cars, according to Federal Narcotics Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Razarudin Husain.
“It is a new modus operandi. We will conduct more inspections on tow truck activities after this, ” he told a press conference at the Perak police headquarters here yesterday.
Razarudin said that during an evening operation at the East-West Expressway in Gerik on June 26, police stopped a tow truck that was towing a car in which about 448kg worth of drugs were found.
SHAH ALAM: Drugs worth over RM17.55mil were seized after police raided a ketamine processing laboratory and crippled an international drug distribution syndicate in two operations last week.
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said the operations on April 20 and 21 in the Klang Valley targeted a syndicate that was believed to have obtained its product from an illegal jetty in Kelantan.
He said the syndicate used containers, and also sent parcels by air and sea, when smuggling the drugs out again. We conducted seven raids and arrested nine men aged between 24 and 46, and seized 134kg of heroin base and 104kg of syabu worth RM15.2mil.