Malacca police bust human trafficking syndicate

MALACCA: Malacca police have smashed a human trafficking syndicate with the arrest of 20 people in three separate raids in Pulau Upeh, Batu Berendam and Malim, earlier this month.

Malacca police chief Datuk Raja Shahrom Raja Abdullah told a press conference here today that 18 of them were Indonesians including three women while the other two were local men.

He said in the Malim raid, police also seized syabu worth RM519,350 from the room the “snakehead” was renting. — Bernama