Malaysian pop star and five accomplices charged in Thailand with drug possession

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A popular Malaysian singer and five of her accomplices were charged in a Narathiwat court on Monday (Nov 4) with possessing more than 6,000 methamphetamine pills.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2s469ynm  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A popular Malaysian singer and five of her accomplices have been charged at a court in

00:05Narathiwat with possessing more than 6,000 methamphetamine pills with the intent to sell

00:11and consume them.

00:13Some 50 Komando policemen were deployed to provide security as one Nor Sahidah Azlin

00:18one Ismail and five fellow Malaysians, aged between 25 and 34, were being transported

00:24to the court on Monday morning.

00:27Two of them were also charged with unlawful entry, as their passports did not have an

00:32entry stamp.

00:33The 28-year-old singer, who records under the name Eda Ezrin, made it big with her hit

00:39Cinta Setandan Pisang.

00:41She was arrested with five others at their hotel rooms at 3.30 am on November 1.

00:48The drugs were found in one of the rooms.

00:51A source at Sungai Kolok Police Station told The Nation that none of the six suspects confessed

00:57they owned the meth pills and reserved their right to testify only in court.

01:02However, police said urine tests revealed all six of them had consumed the drug.

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