{"id":78291,"date":"2020-06-10T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T11:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=78291"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:30:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T11:30:30","slug":"police-cripple-human-trafficking-syndicate-11-agents-nabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=78291","title":{"rendered":"Police cripple human trafficking syndicate, 11 agents nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/malaysia-pahang-police-chief-abdul-jalil-1024x641.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78292\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/malaysia-pahang-police-chief-abdul-jalil-1024x641.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/malaysia-pahang-police-chief-abdul-jalil-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/malaysia-pahang-police-chief-abdul-jalil-768x481.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/malaysia-pahang-police-chief-abdul-jalil.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>KUANTAN: Pahang Police Chief Datuk Abdul Jalil Hassan (left) showing the heroin his men had seized during a raid in Cameron Highlands. The local drug pushers had been caught with the drugs hidden in a blender. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KUANTAN, June 10 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0 Pahang police\u00a0have crippled a human trafficking syndicate with the arrest of 11 men including a Myanmar national, who were believed\u00a0to be syndicate agents in a raid in three districts in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pahang police chief Datuk Abd Jalil Hassan said the suspects, comprising&nbsp;10 local men and one foreigner, aged between 28 and 70, were detained last Thursday after a-month surveillance under Op Benteng in Cameron Highlands, Lipis, and Temerloh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Preliminary investigation found the suspects are involved in bringing in victims from Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar to work as farm workers as&nbsp;there is a high demand for these workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Each agent gets around RM1,000 to RM3,000 per head to smuggle the illegal immigrants into Malaysia, and there is a high demand in Cameron Highlands,\u201d he said in a press conference at Pahang contingent police headquarters here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abd Jalil said all the suspects would&nbsp;be detained&nbsp;until July 3 under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 and the case is being investigated under Section 26J of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a separate development, Abd Jalil said police detained a couple&nbsp;aged 33 and 39 at an apartment in Cameron Highlands on Thursday for possessing about&nbsp;4.4 kilogrammes of heroin worth RM40, 645 for the market here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The male suspect, who was working as a taxi driver, had&nbsp;allegedly used his vehicle to distribute the drugs around Cameron Highlands, Raub, and Lipis in the past six months. Urine tests found them to be positive for drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added the couple, who had&nbsp;previous drug-related criminal records, was&nbsp;remanded until tomorrow to facilitate investigations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case is&nbsp;being investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUANTAN, June 10 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0 Pahang police\u00a0have crippled a human trafficking syndicate with the arrest of 11 men including a Myanmar national, who were believed\u00a0to be syndicate agents in a raid in three districts in the state. 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