Iranian drug kingpin nabbed

KUALA LUMPUR: An Iranian drug kingpin, nabbed by police in 2008 and deported, was re-arrested by police on Monday when he slipped into the country again to resume his shady activities.
Federal police NCID director Commissioner Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said the suspect, in his 40s, who was detained in Simpang Renggam detention centre for a year before being deported to his country in 2009, was arrested in a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur at about 11.40pm.
“We are checking on how he managed to slip into the country without having any legal documents. We did not find any drugs on him but he is the kingpin of several drug syndicates,” he said
Noor Rashid said the suspect was arrested in a joint-operation between the federal Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) and Selangor police over two days which resulted in the seizure of 22.9kg of drugs worth RM4.6 million in several raids involving three foreign drug syndicates in the Klang Valley.
He said in a separate raid on Monday, three Iranian male suspects were arrested in Ampang Utama at about 2pm where police found four packets of drugs at the back of the car seat amounting to 2kg.
In another case on the same day, a Nigerian woman was arrested at about 3.20pm after the police party radied two apartment units in Bukit Jalil.
Noor Rashid said police seized 8.7kg of syabu which were hidden in five DVD player boxes and concealed in packets of junk food at the apartment. A small amount of ganja was also found at the place.
Just an hour later, in a third operation, police detained a Nigerian man at another condominium in Bukit Jalil and found him in possession of three packets of syabu weighing 718gm.
More drugs were seized on Tuesday when a General Operation Force (GOF) team on a operation to weed out illegal immigrants found eight packets of syabu amounting to11.5kg in a shoulder bag at an oil palm plantation in Sabak Bernam.
“The bag contained eight packets of drug,” Noor Rashid told a press conference at Bukit Aman.
All the six detainees aged between 20 and 46 have been remanded to facilitate investigations under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 which carries the death penalty upon conviction.