Thiruvananthapuram: The Customs and Central Excise Department here on Thursday seized 7 kg of ketamine (a veterinary anaesthetic widely abused as a recreational drug in South East Asia) from Kannagi Vasu, 27, a Malaysia-bound air passenger hailing from Perumabur in Chennai.
Investigators told The Hindu on Thursday that they suspected that certain corrupt enforcers at the Kuala Lumpur airport perhaps profited from the smuggling of ketamine hydrochloride from various airports in India to Malaysia.
In the past four months, the department and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) had seized the drug from at least 12 Kuala Lumpur-bound passengers from various airports in the country.
Curiously, most of the detained carriers choose the heavily policed Kuala Lumpur airport over other less-policed and remote ones in that country to ‘consign ketamine shipments from India.’
15/02/13 The Hindu
