Five men slapped with three drug charges in Pasir Gudang

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A businessman with the title ‘Datuk’ was among five men who were charged at the Johor Baru Magistrate’s Court on Monday (Dec 4) for trafficking ecstasy weighing over 23.5 kilogrammes in November.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/cfiKL  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 A businessman with the title Datok was among five men who were charged at the Johor Bahru

00:07 Magistrate's Court on Monday for trafficking ecstasy, weighing over 23.5 kilograms, in

00:14 November.

00:15 The charges were read out to Datok Long Chan Yau, Wong Fook Loi and Chai Chun Foo before

00:20 Magistrate R. Salini.

00:23 No plea was recorded, however, as the case falls under the jurisdiction of the High Court.

00:29 The three men, together with two other Myanmar men, were jointly charged with trafficking

00:34 the drugs in powder and pill forms at Taman Pase Buteh, Pase Gudang on November 27.

00:41 The charges, under Section 39(b)(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, carries a death

00:48 sentence or life imprisonment and not less than 15 strokes of the cane upon conviction.

00:55 The Court set January 23, 2014, for the charges to be read out to the two Myanmar nationals,

01:01 Win Min Hiang and Kyeong Myap Pho, by a Myanmar interpreter as they could not understand Malay,

01:07 English or Mandarin.

01:09 The suspects were arrested on November 27 and November 28 in three separate raids in

01:14 Pase Gudang and Johor Bahru.

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