KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 – An Indian national, suspected to be the mastermind behind a local syndicate trafficking in psychotropic pills was detained by the police in Putrajaya on June 19.
Also nabbed was a local man who was with the foreigner in a luxury car in the incident about 11.30pm. The duo’s arrest was a follow-up to a police operation an hour earlier in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan where a man and his wife, who were in a car were picked up.
From their Putrajaya-bound vehicle, a police team seized five boxes containing 391,900 psychotropic pills and worth about RM2.2 million. Bukit Aman Narcotics Crime Department director Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said the seized drug was from India.
Initial investigations revealed the Indian national was the suspected mastermind behind the drug operation, he said. Three days later, in an unrelated development, Noor Rashid said the police detained a Pakistani at the KL International Airport about 10pm and seized eight plastic packages of syabu weighing 1.6kg. He said the drug was found taped to the man’s calves during a body check at the airport.
– BERNAMA
