KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar has refuted a Thai allegation that internationally-linked syndicates have made Penang a transit point for their smuggled drugs from the "Golden Triangle". The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) said while it could not be denied that drug were distributed and...
28/12/2016 | THE SUNGEORGE TOWN: Penang police have smashed a heroin processing lab after arresting two women and a man following an operation which started on Sunday. The raiding team seized several illicit drugs totaling 29.582kg and drug processing equipment worth in total RM546,500. State police chief Datuk Abdul...
22/12/2016 | THE SUNJOHOR BARU: Police have crippled a drug syndicate following the arrest of 15 suspects in a special operation on Dec 2 in Johor and Kuala Lumpur. Police also seized RM1.7 million worth of syabu and vehicles and cash valued at RM730,000. “The syndicate, which was newly set up, aimed at traffick...
05/12/2016 | THE SUNIPOH: Police have uncovered a new tactic used by drug traffickers to bring in drugs by packing them in sachets and passing them off as mango powder. Perak Narcotics Crime Investigation Department chief ACP R. Ravi Chandran said the yellow-coloured attractive sachets containing methamphetamine could...
15/11/2016 | THE SUNIPOH: Drug traffickers are believed to be using bombs to evade arrest at their premises. The first such incident occurred when a police team raided a house in Bagan Seberang, Kuala Kurau in Kerian district on Tuesday. Perak Narcotics Crime Investigation Department chief ACP R. Ravichandran said they...
10/11/2016 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has sacked one of its officers, Muhammad Nazrin Abdullah, effective Nov 1 for being involved in drugs. The commission said its disciplinary board made the decision after Muhammad Nazrin was found guilty by a court in September. "MACC take...
10/11/2016 | THE SUNHONG KONG: British banker Rurik Jutting who is accused of murdering two Indonesian women in his upscale Hong Kong apartment was a cocaine addict who had developed drug-induced fantasies, a court heard Wednesday. The 31-year-old Cambridge graduate and former securities trader for Bank of America-M...
26/10/2016 | THE SUNKuala Lumpur - Malaysia will not resort to the controversial methods used by the Philippine government to contain the drug problem said TPM at a press conference after attending Cabinet Committee on Eradication of Drugs at the Parliament temporary building yesterday. Meanwhile Zahid said Kedah has...
26/10/2016 | THE SUNPUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has upheld the death sentence on a Thai woman who was convicted of trafficking cocaine in 80 capsules by swallowing and inserting them into her private part. In dismissing Chonmanee Laphathanawat's appeal against her conviction and death penalty, Justice Datuk Wir...
26/10/2016 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (pix) today expressed the government's concern over the abuse of drugs among school children. "Drug traffickers are now using students to become addicts so that the drug market can be lucrative," he said at a press conference af...
25/10/2016 | THE SUNHANOI: Vietnamese police hunted Monday for hundreds of drug addicts who escaped from a compulsory rehabilitation centre, with some using sticks and fire extinguishers to break out. The communist government decrees up to two years of forced rehabilitation at government centres to try to reduce dr...
24/10/2016 | THE SUNPetaling Jaya - Nine policemen were remanded for consuming air ketum and gambling at a food stall in an open-air car park on Wednesday. However the suspects were later released on bail as the remand order was only 24 hours. A total of 11 people were arrested including the stallowner for selling th...
14/10/2016 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR: Police have busted an international syndicate smuggling ganja from Nigeria with eight syndicate members detained in two major operations in Klang Valley. Federal NCID director Commissioner Datuk Seri Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said this is the first time police have come across a cas...
06/10/2016 | THE SUNGEORGE TOWN: A 60-year-old money changer was found safe and sound at an apartment unit in Bayan Lepas late Sunday after being held captive for five days since last Wednesday. According to Penang police chief Datuk Abdul Ghafar Rajab, the money changer from Bukit Jambul was tied up and blindfolded wh...
05/10/2016 | THE SUNKUALA LUMPUR - Police made a gruesome discovery when they found the body of a murdered women after her son ran amok with a bloodied parang into a police station near Taman Bukit Indah here yesterday. Ampang district police chief ACP Hamzah Alias said initial investigations revealed that the 23-year-...
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