KUCHING, Malaysia: The Customs Department has arrested a foreign national and seized 11kg of ketamine worth RM382,655 ($160,676) at the Kuching International Airport.

State Customs director Datuk Rusmani Abdul Sukur said enforcers found the drugs hidden in stainless steel milk pots in the suspect's luggage on Sunday following a tip-off.

"The milk pots had secret compartments which were filled with white crystal-like powder believed to be ketamine," he told a press conference yesterday.

Rusmani said the 32-year-old suspect's travel documents showed he was of South Asian origin and that he boarded a flight to Malaysia from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi last Saturday. After a stopover at KLIA, he arrived in Kuching on Sunday.