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Malaysian police arrest Iranians over drug haul
[Straits Times] MALAYSIAN police said on Tuesday they have dented a major drugs syndicate with the arrest of two Iranian women with over 6.2 kilogrammes of methamphetamine on a resort island.Northern Penang state police chief Ayub Yaakob said the women were nabbed on Saturday at Penang international airport after their suitcases were found containing drugs worth 1.55 million ringgit (S$664,000). 'We became suspicious about the women as they had travelled to Malaysia three times in less than three months and they did not have any business dealings or any other reason to keep them coming back so frequently,' he said. 'The two Iranian women, we believe, are part of one of the region's biggest syndicates which is trying to use Malaysia as a transhipment point for its drug and it has been dealt a significant blow with this arrest,' he added. Iran's ambassador in Kuala Lumpur has said international crime gangs are using Iranians to smuggle drugs into Malaysia. There has been a steep increase in the number of Iranian suspected narcos caught in Malaysia, with 138 nabbed from January to October last year compared with 16 in the whole of 2009. Posted by: Fred 2011-02-23 |
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