00:01Sabah police have dealt a major blow to an international drug syndicate after seizing more than 329 kilos of shabu
00:08worth nearly 18 million ringgit in two large-scale operations in Tawao and Samporna.
00:14The drugs were believed to have been brought into Sabah through Jalan Merapok in Sipitang before being prepared for shipment
00:20overseas.
00:21Sabah police commissioner Datuk Jautedikun said the scale of the seizures pointed to an organized cross-border trafficking network.
00:30He said six suspects were arrested, while another suspect remained at large following the operations that were conducted on July
00:3612th and July 13th.
00:38He said in the July 12th operation in Tawao, they intercepted a vehicle and found four bags containing some 74
00:45kilos of shabu,
00:46while the July 13th operation at an oil palm plantation in Samporna yielded some 254 kilos of shabu packed into
00:54black travel bags inside a van.
00:55He said they suspected the drugs originated from the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia.
01:02He said they are intensifying intelligence work and cooperation with other enforcement agencies to close gaps along routes used to
01:09smuggle drugs into Sabah.
01:12He said he is in the middle of the
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