SUNGAI BULOH: Police arrested two married Thai couples suspected of being involved in a drug trafficking syndicate, in a raid on March 13.
Selangor police chief Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said at around 2pm, the Selangor Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department stopped a four-wheel-drive vehicle on the roadside in the Subang Jaya area, and apprehended two local men.
"Upon inspection inside the vehicle, 40 packets containing 40.1 kilogrammes of marijuana were found.
"As a result of the investigation, the police raided a house in Ampang Jaya and successfully seized a total of 50 packets containing 50.3 kilogrammes," Hussein said in a press conference here today.
Following the arrest, police detained the two Thai couples, believed to be the masterminds, at a house in the Balakong area of Kajang and also confiscated 1.5 litres of ketum water.
All six suspects are aged between 26 and 32.
"The Thai couples procured drugs in neighbouring countries and hired local transporters to smuggle the drugs to the border.
"They then cross the border using their vehicles, entering using social visit passes and renting a homestay in the Klang Valley area.
"They have successfully entered the country three times, twice last year and once this year.
"After selling all the drugs brought into Malaysia, they would return to their home country," he said.
Hussein said the local suspects were employed as labourers and traders. One of them had records of drug and criminal offences.
He said initial screening showed that only the two male foreign suspects tested positive for amphetamines and methamphetamines.
Police seized a total of 90 packets containing drugs, worth RM281,000.
The police also initiated investigations under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Forfeiture of Property) 1988, resulting in the seizure of a Toyota Alphard valued at RM120,000 and six items of gold jewellery worth RM33,000.
The case is being investigated under Section 117 of the Criminal Code of Procedure and Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, which carry the death penalty of life imprisonment, with a minimum of 15 strokes of cane.