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KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN police have smashed an international drug trafficking syndicate that pays local college students up to RM35,000 (S$15,000) to courier heroin overseas.
Five of the syndicate members - four West African men and a local woman - have been arrested and drugs worth RM1.7 million were seized during a raid at an apartment in Damansara Perdana near Kuala Lumpur.
Investigations revealed that the students were each paid between RM16,000 and RM35,000 for a single job, and they were sent to countries such as Australia, China, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Japan, Trinidad and Tobago.
Police also believe that three Malaysian students who were caught overseas for drug-trafficking sometime last year could be linked to the syndicate that has been operating here for more than a year.
Federal narcotics crime investigations department director Commissioner Zul Hasnan Najib Baharuddin said: 'We arrested five people including four men from West Africa and a local woman aged between 30 and 48 years old during a raid on an apartment in Damansara Perdana on Tuesday after monitoring them for about a month.'
THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
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