KUALA LUMPUR: The police busted a drug trafficking syndicate with the arrest of two local men, aged 29 and 31, and seized various drugs worth almost RM450,000 in raids on several condominium units in Segambut here on November 18.
According to BERNAMA News Agency, Sentul district police chief ACP Ahmad Sukarno Mohd Zahari stated that the arrests were made during a raid at 6:45 pm on a condominium unit, where 1,982 packets of MDMA weighing 101,850 grams were discovered and seized.
“The team then raided two more units in the same condominium building and seized 196 packets of MDMA weighing 9,942 grams; 450 erimin 5 pills (124 grams); five Ecstasy packets (93.83 grams); eight packets of ketamine (242 grams); 45 Yaba pills (4.51 grams); drug processing equipment and keys to two vehicles,” he revealed at a media conference at the Sentul district police headquarters today.
The police also found 11 packets of MDMA (542 grams) in the back passenger seat of a white Volkswagen Passat parked in the condominium area an
d seized four cars – a Toyota Alphard, a Perodua Myvi, a Honda Civic, and a Suzuki Swift, believed to be used for delivering drugs to customers.
Both suspects, who tested negative for drugs and did not have prior criminal records, have been remanded for seven days from November 19 under Section 38B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, with their remand extended for six days today. He added that the police were currently trying to identify other syndicate members who remain at large and the source of the seized drugs.