Hanoi (VNA) – An international drug syndicate was busted after Malaysian police seized over 18 tonnes of drugs worth nearly 375 million USD in one of the country’s biggest drug busts on record.
Media in Malaysia reported on December 20 that a series of raids in the Klang Valley on December 16 uncovered a massive drug processing lab located in a three-storey bungalow, as well as various other premises used for drug storage.
The seizures included 3kg of MDMA which is commonly known as ecstasy, four tonnes of cocaine and 14 tonnes of ketamine. Six suspects, including three Malaysian men and three foreign women aged 24 to 39, were arrested.
Director of the Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) Hussein Omar Khan one suspect acted as the head storekeeper and assistant to the “chemist”, FMT reported. Two others were responsible for managing the residential homes and business premises used as illegal drug laboratories.
The syndicate is believed to have been active since April, using residential homes and business premises to process drugs for the international market./.
