{"id":56045,"date":"2019-12-23T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56045"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T06:57:27","slug":"two-malaysians-arrested-for-bringing-in-kratom-to-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56045","title":{"rendered":"Two Malaysians arrested for bringing in Kratom to Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>By Massita Ahmad<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>SINGAPORE, Dec 23\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Two Malaysian men were arrested for bringing in four bottles of brown liquid, believed to be Kratom on Dec 10 at Jurong Port, according to Singapore\u2019s Immigration &amp; Checkpoints Authority (ICA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its Facebook page Sunday, ICA said its officers discovered the bottles in a Malaysia-registered lorry conveying metal beams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwo other bottles containing remnants of a similar liquid were also found. The bottles were hidden beneath and behind the driver\u2019s seat,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ICA noted that Kratom contains \u2018Mitragynine\u2019 and \u20187-Hydromitragynine\u2019, which are Class A controlled drugs listed under the Misuse of Drug Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The importation of any Class A controlled drugs into Singapore is an offence that, upon conviction, carries a punishment of between a minimum of five years\u2019 imprisonment and five strokes of the cane, and a maximum of 30 years imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe two Malaysians, aged 35 and 38, were arrested for their connection to this case. The case has been referred to the Central Narcotics Bureau for further investigation,\u201d said ICA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Massita Ahmad SINGAPORE, Dec 23\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Two Malaysian men were arrested for bringing in four bottles of brown liquid, believed to be Kratom on Dec 10 at Jurong Port, according to Singapore\u2019s Immigration &amp; Checkpoints Authority (ICA). In its Facebook page Sunday, ICA said its officers discovered the bottles in a Malaysia-registered lorry conveying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":14221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}