Published: Friday November 19, 2010 MYT 4:33:00 PM
Zimbabwean women among 6 arrested for smuggling drug
SHAH ALAM: Two Zimbabwean women were among six foreigners arrested for attempting to smuggle in a total of 11.4kg of syabu worth RM2.8mil at KL International Airport between Nov 16 and Thursday, police said. Selangor narcotics crime investigation chief ACP Nordin Kadir said Friday the Zimbabwean women, aged 36 and 28, were arrested Thursday at 10.30am and 4.20pm respectively.
He said in the first incident, police found syabu weighing 3.25kg in cash from the 36-year-old woman and another 3.85kg of the same drug hidden inside three fuel filter cylinders from the other women. On Tuesday, police found 1.015kg of the drug from a 24-year-old Iranian at 11am and another 1.1kg from another Iranian, aged 24, 30 minutes later. The rest of the drugs were seized from two other foreign nationals, including a Nigerian, Thursday.
He said police were investigating the case under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 which carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction. Police also detected a change in the tactics used by syndicates by bringing the drugs in smaller amount to avoid detection, he said, adding that police had to conduct manual search for these drugs because their small amount could not be easily detected using the scanning machine. - Bernama
