KUALA LUMPUR (BERNAMA) – Malaysian police arrested three childhood friends on Monday on suspicions of heading a cannabis trafficking syndicate via Telegram.
Sentul district police chief ACP Ahmad Sukarno Mohd Zahari said the three local men, 20 to 24, were arrested in two raids between 2.20pm and 5.50pm in the areas around Publika and Wisma Cosway, Jalan Raja Chulan in Kuala Lumpur.
The syndicate had been using courier services to distribute the drugs throughout the Klang Valley without meeting customers directly after collecting their orders via Telegram, he said, adding that interrogation of the suspects led the police to a premises in Wisma Cosway, where the police seized 23.322 kilogrammes (kg) of cannabis.
“A white polystyrene box filled with dried cannabis leaves weighing 0.414kg and three clear plastic bags filled with cannabis flowers with a total weight of 0.65kg were also seized,” he said in a media conference at the Sentul district police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. A Mercedes Benz and a Nissan Almera were also seized at the Wisma Cosway parking lot and all seizures were estimated to be worth MYR85,980, he said.
“The three suspects do not have any prior criminal records, but one tested positive for THC,” he said.
