Tighter inspection at airports as drug rings change their routes

Sepang, Malaysia : After uncovering five cases of drug smuggling this month alone, the KL International Airport Customs has declared all air routes into Malaysia to be at high risk of being used for trafficking.
KLIA Customs director Datuk M. Govinden said syndicates had changed their usual routes into Malaysia in a bid to deceive the authorities.
He said the syndicates used to fly from the Gulf and India, but have now switched to flights from other countries.
Govinden said the Customs Department would beef up its manpower to tighten inspection.
He disclosed that the Customs seized 3kg of syabu worth RM750,000 (S$307,575) from a 21-year-old Malaysian at 1.30am yesterday at KLIA. He was arrested.
within three months from October this year. Twenty-four people, 14 of them foreigners, were arrested.
When contacted later, Govinden told The Star that luggage arriving at KLIA would be scanned twice for suspicious items, especially drugs.
He said the first scanning would be conducted before the luggage was placed on the carousels.
29/12/11 Zuhrin Zam Ahmad and Loshana K. Shagar/The Star/Asia News Network/Asiaone

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Categories: airports Dec 2011, Foreign Dec 2011