KEDAH Royal Customs Department seized 35 compressed slabs of ganja worth an estimated RM142,000 hidden in a vehicle at a workshop in Pekan Changlun near Kubang Pasu on Sunday.

Director Nor Izah Abd Latiff said a team of Customs officers from the Alor Star enforcement branch raided the workshop at 3.30pm after a two-week close surveillance operation.

“The team found 35 packets of drugs in four white boxes placed in a pick-up truck bearing a foreign registration plate.

“The group would hide the drugs in the vehicle at the workshop to avoid detection by the authorities,” she said in a statement today.

She said a man in his 50s was remanded until Friday to assist in the investigation and the vehicle believed to have been used to conceal the drugs was confiscated.

“The investigation is being conducted under section 39B (2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952,” she said. – Bernama, December 7, 2022.