Sungai Golok: Police have identified the drug smuggling mastermind following the arrest of a Malaysian suspect in Pekan Sungai Golok, southern Thailand, on Dec 30.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, Kelantan police chief Datuk Mohd Yusoff Mamat stated that the mastermind, who is from Penang, is currently under the police radar. The 24-year-old male suspect, arrested by Thai police, is believed to have played a key role in the syndicate’s operations.

Mohd Yusoff mentioned that the suspect, who was apprehended, hails from Kelantan and has a close relationship with a woman from Laos, who is believed to be his accomplice. They are suspected of smuggling drugs supplied from Thailand, he told reporters after the Kelantan police contingent monthly assembly.

Police are attempting to identify other distribution networks involved. Mohd Yusoff added that Malaysian and Thailand police would work closely to monitor and dismantle such syndicates.

Yesterday, Sungai Golok District police chief Col Pol Jadsadavit Ingprapan confirmed the arrest of a Malaysian on suspicion of smuggling an assortment of drugs valued at RM120,000 in a raid on a premises in Sungai Golok on Dec 30. It was reported that police seized 1,943 ecstasy pills, 1,510 Erimin 5 pills, as well as other types of drugs at the premises.