International drug ring busted, over $480 million worth of drugs seized in Klang Valley raids

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The authorities said the raids produced one of the countrys biggest drug seizures.

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KUALA LUMPUR – An international drug syndicate was busted, leading to over 18 tonnes of drugs worth RM1.53 billion (S$486.36 million) seized, one of the biggest ever recorded.

Six individuals – three local men and three foreign women – were also detained in a series of raids in the Klang Valley on Dec 16.

The raids also uncovered a massive drug processing lab located in a three-storey bungalow and various other premises used for drug storage.

Bukit Aman Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) director Hussein Omar Khan said the first raid was conducted in Cheras, where all six suspects were detained.

“A search of a house led to the seizure of six bottles of liquid believed to contain MDMA, weighing about 3kg.

“A second raid at Taman Taynton View, Cheras, uncovered suspected cocaine in powder form weighing about 738kg, liquid cocaine weighing approximately 3 tonnes as well as various drug-processing equipment,” he told a press conference at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters on Dec 20.

In a third raid at an industrial premises in Sungai Chua, Kajang, Selangor, Comm Datuk Hussein said the raiding team seized 3 tonnes of ketamine in powder form, 10.06 tonnes of liquid ketamine weighing and additional processing equipment.

“The fourth raid, carried out at a premise in Taman Industri Mega, Bandar Teknologi Kajang resulted in the seizure of 28 white sacks containing 1,400 yellow plastic packets of suspected ketamine powder weighing about 1.4 tonnes along with drug-processing