Police nab Indian drug mule at KLIA

SEPANG: An Indian national's attempt to smuggle drugs worth RM260,000 was thwarted by police after he was arrested at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) on Monday.
The 38 year old suspect, who was on an inbound Malindo Air flight from Mumbai at 7am was seen acting suspiciously an hour after the plane landed.
The police then scanned his bags and found 38 sweet packaging boxes filled with drugs.
According to police, only two of the boxes in his bag were actually sweets.
Sepang district police chief ACP Abdul Aziz said that the Indian national was acting as a "drug courier" or middleman as he was suppose to deliver the drugs to an unknown man in the country.
The suspect had claimed that he owned a handphone shop in Mumbai and had been to Malaysia on a social visitors pass three times.
"The suspect said this was his first time as a drug courier and he had come to Malaysia to buy mobile phones," he said, adding that the packages weighed 5900 grams but what type of drugs will be known following the chemist report," he said.
Police have remanded the man for seven days to find the man to whom the drugs were supposed to be delivered to.
The suspect is being charged under section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act for trafficking dangerous drugs which carries a death sentence if convicted.