Kota Kinabalu, Nov 22 – The police have detained two men, including a Brunei national, in connection with the seizure of about 10kg of methamphetamine in two raids last Tuesday.
The drug was worth about RM2.4 million at street value.
Initial police investigations revealed the 35-year-old Brunei national was sought by the authorities in his country for criminal offences.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Sabah Police Commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib said on Nov 19, a police team was in the midst of raiding a house in Taman Nelly, Inaman when a man alighted from a car nearby about 9.30pm.
He said the police nabbed the 32-year-old when they found him carrying a bag containing two packets of syabu weighing about one kilogramme.
Later, the police found a bag containing syabu weighing 85 grammes in the master-bedroom of the house, he said, adding that a Brunei national was also picked up.
Hamza said the arrests of the two suspects led the police to raid a condominium at 1Borneo, the following day, resulting in the seizure of 8,917 grammes of methamphetamine in the master bedroom.
Subsequently, the police seized three cars and a motorcycle, all registered in Brunei, and valued at RM650,000.
–Bernama
