Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police arrested seven Iranians including one woman and seized a total of 3.8 million ringgit (1.08 million dollars) worth of methamphetamines, a news report said Wednesday. The suspects were nabbed in five separate raids in the central Selangor state and at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Monday and Tuesday, the Star daily reported.
The suspects arrested at the airport arrived on different international flights posing as tourists in transit to other countries, state narcotics chief Nordin Kadir was quoted as saying by the Star daily.
"We are investigating if they belong to the same syndicate," Nordin said, adding that police were also investigating whether the suspects were linked to the Malaysian drugs scene.
"We also suspect some of the drugs were meant for the local market while some tried to bring the drugs to another country via Kuala Lumpur," he said.
Nordin said police had arrested a total of 41 Iranians for suspected drug trafficking over the past two months.
Malaysia has a mandatory death sentence by hanging for those found guilty of trafficking in most types of illegal drugs.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/308474,malaysian-police-arrest-seven-iranians-in-drug-bust.html.
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