KOTA KINABALU: Malaysia Customs nabbed a Chinese national who trying to smuggle 1.4kg of syabu with a street value of about RM265,240 into the country in a rice cooker here the other day.
The 26-year-old woman was travelling from Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur and was on transit at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport at about 6.30pm when Customs personnel flagged her for suspicious behavior.
“The suspect was travelling without any luggage – only a handbag and a box with the rice cooker. A background check had also shown she was unemployed but was travelling on business class,” said Sabah Customs department director Datuk Janathan Kandok.
“Acting on suspicion, Customs personnel scanned her belongings and discovered five parcels in the rice cooker, each wrapped with black carbon paper and transparent masking tape and filled with methamphetamine or better known as syabu,” he said.
Janathan said both the woman and the drugs were held under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drug Act 1952 for further investigation.
