Selangor police chief Shazeli Kahar said the operations conducted from May 6 to 11 resulted in the arrests of seven suspects: one Malaysian man, three foreign men, and three foreign women.

He said police seized 251.8kg of drugs valued at RM17.8 million, comprising 172.8kg of cannabis buds and 79kg of methamphetamine.

“The quantity seized is estimated to be enough to supply about 839,000 users based on an estimated consumption rate of 0.3g each,” he said in a statement today.

During the first raid on May 6, KLIA auxiliary police detected three suspicious bags during baggage screening at the airport terminal.

A team from the KLIA police’s narcotics criminal investigation division later arrested three foreign nationals – one man and two women – aged between 17 and 19, and seized 72.6kg of cannabis buds worth RM5.8 million, concealed in 66 plastic packages inside the luggage.

On May 9, police detained another two foreign suspects, a man and woman aged 30 and 31, after four suspicious bags were flagged during screening. Police found 72.8kg of cannabis buds in 136 plastic packages, estimated to be worth RM5.85 million. One of the suspects also tested positive for THC.

Another foreign man, 28, was arrested on May 10 after police discovered 27.4kg of cannabis buds worth RM2.2 million in 52 plastic packages in two bags at the airport.

In the fourth case on May 11, Ampang police arrested a 22-year-old local man outside a residence in Ampang Jaya and seized 79kg of methamphetamine worth RM3.95 million from his vehicle.

The suspects were all remanded for 14 days and are being investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 for drug trafficking, which provides for the death penalty, or life imprisonment and no fewer than 15 strokes of the rotan.

“None of the suspects have criminal records in Malaysia. The foreign nationals were believed to have used social visit passes to traffic drugs,” said Shazeli.