POLICE have busted a drug syndicate with the arrest of eight people, including two foreign women, and seizure of methamphetamine worth about RM2.5 million on September 23.

Selangor deputy police chief Sharul Lalli Masduki said that acting on information, a team from the Serdang district Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department seized 62 packets of what is believed to be methamphetamine from a car parked in front of a supermarket in Seri Kembangan at about 6.30pm.

In a follow-up operation, police nabbed a local man and a Vietnamese woman at a condominium in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, who led them to the arrest of five local men and a Thai woman at three locations in Dang Wangi.

“Their modus operandi was to park a rented vehicle in a certain area for another party to collect the drugs later on. They only communicated by phone or other media,” he said at a press conference in Shah Alam today. 

He said the suspects, aged 31 to 53, are unemployed, and the two foreign women were posing as wives of two of the men detained. 

He said the syndicate is believed to have been active for six months.

Five of the suspects have records for drug offences, with three testing positive for methamphetamine.

Police also seized RM126,000 in cash and five cars worth RM590,000.

All the suspects have been remanded until October 4 for investigation under section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, which provides for the death sentence and at least 15 strokes of the rotan on conviction. – Bernama, October 1, 2021.