Sabah Customs seizes over 70kg drugs worth RM2.4mil
Acting Sabah Customs assistant director-general Saidin Jalaluddin said the latest seizure was made on March 28 involving four unmarked packages at Mas Kargo, Kota Kinabalu.
Checks found that the packages were believed to contain methamphetamine, weighing 71.719kg, estimated to be worth RM2,295,008," he told a press conference here on Monday (April 21).
He said the team also seized a package at Pos Aviation Kota Kinabalu on March 1.
"The package contained items suspected to be ketamine, weighing 434gm, estimated to be worth RM86,800," he added.
Saidin said that in an operation conducted from January 31 to February 28, four packages were seized at Mas Kargo, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
"The packages were believed to contain 15.35kg of ganja, worth RM47,606.70," he said, adding that the cases were investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952. - Bernama
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