SEPANG: The Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Customs Department has seized RM 420,470 in drugs with the arrest of two foreigners in three separate cases this month.
Its Director Datuk Chik Omar Chik Lim said the department had foiled the three attempts to smuggle the narcotics into the country through freight forwarding services on March 6, 19, and 21.
He said the two arrests involved men from Nigeria who were in the country on student visas, while the department had yet to make any arrest for the latest case.
"All three cases used the same modus operandi which was to send parcels to apartment units (in the Klang Valley),"
"The parcels would usually be addressed to receivers with local names," he told a press conference at the department's office, here, this morning.
Chik Omar said the drugs, weighing 2.21 kgs in total, were hidden in several items such as canned tomatoes, closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV), and small umbrellas.
