Bukit Aman sending team to probe drug bust in Japan involving M'sians

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Bukit Aman will send a team to Japan to probe the arrest of five Malaysians in a cocaine smuggling case, which also involves a sixth individual who has since returned to Malaysia.  Bukit Aman Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) director Comm Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said the team would gather information on the arrests and investigate possible links to Malaysian and international drug syndicates.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/5fsdpwhe  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:01Bukit Aman will send a team to Japan to investigate the arrest of five Malaysians for cocaine smuggling

00:07and to look into possible links to local and international drug syndicates.

00:12Narcotics Crime Investigation Department Director Commissioner Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said

00:18Japanese authorities informed police that two men and three women were arrested at Haneda Airport on October 10.

00:25Customs officers found five kilograms of cocaine hidden in the insoles of their shoes.

00:31All six Malaysians flew from KLIA Terminal 2 to Haneda on October 9 for a holiday.

00:38The sixth was not detained and has returned to Malaysia.

00:41They are aged 19 to 26 and five are from Sarawak. None have criminal records.

00:48Hussein urged travellers to be wary of holiday offers and never to carry items for others

00:53without knowing the contents to avoid being used as drug mules.

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