The Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) have uncovered the country’s first known ketamine narcotics lab, after a raid carried out on a luxury condominium in KL last Friday night, where drugs worth RM757,000 were seized.
Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) director Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said a team from his department’s KL contingent had arrested two men, aged 44 and 51, in Taman Mutiara, Cheras. The men had been in a car parked by the road, and were deemed to have been acting suspiciously.
“Upon checking the car, the police found 2.5kg of ketamine in the bonnet,” Noor Rashid said to The Malay Mail Online.
After receving information from the men during questioning, the NCID team stormed a condo unit in Taman Sri Hartamas, where they found another 15kg of ketamine, 200 ecstasy pills and drug-making paraphernalia.
He said the condo unit had been rented for the past eight months for RM2,200 a month by the two men, who are from Sungai Petani, Kedah.
“The two suspects, who are best friends, have been actively distributing the drugs around the Klang Valley, with the price of RM40,000 a kg,” Noor Rashid said.
One of them has a record for possessing a dangerous weapon.
Both men were remanded for a week on suspicion of drug trafficking, the sentence for which charge is the mandatory death penalty, upon conviction.
Photo: The Malay Mail
