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Kota Kinabalu: A 30-year-old jobless man may face the gallows after being caught in possession of RM280,088 worth of assorted drugs enough for nearly 30,000 users in the city.
City Police Chief ACP Habibi Majinji said they also believed they smashed a syndicate involved in distributing drugs especially to night entertainment outlets with the case.
He said the suspect was nabbed in a raid conducted by the city Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) in a collaboration with the State NCID at 4.50pm at the Kepayan Ridge flats off Jalan Hospital Queen Elizabeth on Feb 5 in the case framed under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, which provides the death penalty on conviction.
KULIM: Police arrested four people, including a woman, and seized RM3.67mil worth of drugs in three separate raids in Kedah and Penang.
Federal Narcotics Crime Investigation Department director Comm Datuk Razarudin Husain said the suspects, aged between 32 and 33, were arrested in a special operation conducted by the Bukit Aman and Kedah Narcotics CID on Jan 27.
“In the one-hour simultaneous raids beginning 10.45am, we seized 11.18kg of Ecstasy, ketamine (17.8kg), Erimin 5 (20.22kg), juice drinks (20.15kg) and ‘mushroom’ drugs (410g).
“Police also confiscated RM488,400 worth of assets of the syndicate, including seven cars, a high-powered motorcycle and RM4,000, ” he said at a press conference at the Kulim police headquarters yesterday.
JOHOR BARU: Thirteen individuals, who were arrested in what has been described as the country’s biggest ever drug bust, will be charged at a Magistrate’s Court here today.
By: Bernama
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JOHOR BAHRU: Johor police made the biggest drug seizure in the history of the Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) when they seized drugs worth RM201 million in three raids around this city on Jan 14 and 15.
Johor police chief Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said the bust followed investigations into 14 suspects of a drug smuggling and distribution syndicate who were caught here on Jan 12.
He said, in the February 12 operation, the NCID had uncovered two drug processing laboratories and two stores where drugs worth RM125.8 million were kept.
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“Interrogation of the suspects led police to raid the three other locations which were used to store drugs namely a factory in Taman Mount Austin and two rented houses in Taman Setia Indah.