SHAH ALAM, Malaysia, March 1 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The Selangor state police have crippled a drug trafficking syndicate with the arrest of five men including an Indonesian citizen and seized a total of 12 kilogrammes of drugs worth RM1.59 million in a raid on a two-storey shophouse at Brickfields, Wednesday.
Selangor police chief Datuk Noor Azam Jamaludin said the raid at 4.30pm was done in collaboration with the Kuala Lumpur Police Contingent Headquarters, following intelligence received.
The premises were believed to be the place of operation, drug storage and residence of all suspects, he told a press conference, here today.
He said the drug believed to be syabu was found in six one-kilogramme Chinese tea packets as well as 16 packets containing ‘heroin base’ weighing 379 grams each, believed to be for the local market and possibly distributed in nightclubs.
“The six kilogrammes of syabu can be supplied to 12,120 addicts a day while six kilogrammes of heroin base could produce 72 kg of heroin that can be supplied to 240,000 addicts a day,” he said.
“Police also seized RM50,000 in cash kept in a shophouse and confiscated three cars, Honda Accord, Toyota Vios and Proton Saga, owned by the suspects,” he said.
Noor Azam said the suspects aged between 38 to 55 years old were working as salesperson, trader and cook, while police are still investigating the role of the Indonesian man.
He said further investigation found that three of the local suspects had previous criminal records with two individuals have a criminal record while another individual had two drug-related records and three criminal records.
He said the preliminary urine tests screening found three of the suspects are positive for syabu, and currently, all were remanded until next Wednesday to assist in the investigation under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.
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