THE Narcotic Crime Investigation Department (NCID) seized 650kg of Captagon pills, an amphetamine drug known as ‘Jihad drug’, worth a whooping RM221.86 million in Port Klang on Monday.

NCID director Razarudin Husain said the seizure, the second involving Captagon pills in Malaysia, was made possible with the cooperation and intelligence sharing by Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Narcotics Control (GDNC)

Acting on the information, he said the NCID detected a container ship that docked at West Port on Sunday. One of its containers had aluminium flooring with a spring mechanism, and was meant to be transferred to another ship heading to Singapore on April 6.

“The drugs were found after a scan showed suspicious images of pills inside the flooring.

“The drugs were transported from the Middle East and were in transit at Port Klang, before heading to West Asian countries to meet the market demand there,” he told a press conference today.

Razarudin, however, said that no arrest was made during the operation and that the NCID and the GDNC will continue to work together to take the drug ring down.

He said Captagon pills were used to increase muscle strength in Germany in the 1960s, but was banned in the United States and Europe in the 1980s, after it was categorised as a drug.

The pill, which contains amphetamine and fenethylline, is often used by Daesh militants in Syria to give them “courage”, he said.

“We don’t want Malaysia to be a transit country for the drug.

“So far, the drug has not entered the Malaysian market and we want to keep it that way,” he added. – Bernama, April 8, 2021.