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Wednesday January 26, 2011
Iranian drug ring busted
By ANDREW SAGAYAM
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KUALA LUMPUR: Police scored their first major drug bust of the year, smashing a syndicate run by Iranians with the arrest of 13 people and seizure of drugs worth RM15.7mil.
Federal police narcotics department director Commissioner Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said they seized 78.7kg of drugs in the raid that came after investigation which began on Jan 18.
“We uncovered a drug processing lab at an Ampang condominium and nabbed an Iranian man while seizing 13kg of syabu,” Comm Noor Rashid told a press conference in Bukit Aman here yesterday.
He said that three men and an Iranian woman were arrested several hours later in the Ampang area.
Mission accomplished: Comm Noor Rashid (right) showing a plastic bag containing syabu that was seized following a raid on an Ampang condominium.
Three days later, two Iranian men were caught smuggling drugs into the country by consuming 174 plastic capsules containing syabu weighing 1.5kg.
On the same day, he said, a team from the Bukit Aman narcotics department nabbed three men and a woman, all Iranians, and seized 984gm of syabu at a Pandan Indah house.
Comm Noor Rashid said that on Sunday, following the arrests of another two Iranian men at a Subang Jaya shopping complex, a federal narcotics team raided the Sentul condominium unit that was used by the syndicate to store drugs.
“Police seized 63.19kg of syabu at the unit and arrested two more Iranian men near the condominium block,” he said.
Police confiscated more than RM150,000, in Euro and US currencies and five cars – Mercedes Benz, BMW 5 series, Toyota Camry, Honda Civic and a Proton Waja.
Prior to this success, police arrested 32 Iranians and seized a total of 115.9kg of syabu worth RM23mil last year.
