Police have crippled one of the largest drug trafficking syndicates in Johor believed to be supplying narcotics to Singapore and Indonesia, with the arrest of two suspects and the seizure of drugs worth RM14.3mil.
At a press conference held at the Iskandar Puteri district police headquarters in Johor Baru on Tuesday (April 8), Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) acting director Deputy Comm Mat Zani @ Mohd Salahuddin Che Ali revealed that the operation led to the seizure of 34.5kg of heroin, 1.5kg of heroin base, 83kg of ecstasy pills, and 2kg of syabu.
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At a press conference held at the Iskandar Puteri district police headquarters in Johor Baru on Tuesday (April 8), Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) acting director Deputy Comm Mat Zani @ Mohd Salahuddin Che Ali revealed that the operation led to the seizure of 34.5kg of heroin, 1.5kg of heroin base, 83kg of ecstasy pills, and 2kg of syabu.
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00:00I would like to thank the Bukit Aman Drug Crime Investigation Department and the Johor
00:11Contingency Drug Crime Investigation Department for our efforts to launch an operation or
00:17to carry out a covert operation to disrupt the drug syndicate in the Iskandar Puteri area
00:26and involve the largest drug trafficking syndicate in Johor for the international market.
00:34Based on our investigation, on 27 March 2025, at around 5.30pm, the Bukit Aman Drug Crime
00:44Investigation Team together with the JSJN IPK Contingency Johor have launched a covert
00:52operation to make and arrest a Honda City vehicle and have arrested two main suspects,
01:04a driver and a passenger, at Gawat Sampakir, a Pansampuri in Iskandar Puteri, Johor.
01:14Based on our investigation on the vehicle, we have found two slabs of plastic packaging
01:25containing shabu poison, weighing 2 kilograms. We also found six plastic packages containing
01:36heroin, weighing 3.3 kilograms. We also found four plastic packages containing heroin,
01:48weighing 1.5 kilograms. After the robbery, we also carried out another covert operation
01:59to make and arrest a honda city vehicle and have arrested two main suspects, a driver
02:04and a passenger, at Gawat Sampakir, Johor. Based on our investigation, on 28 March 2025,
02:13at around 5.30pm, the Bukit Aman Drug Crime Investigation Team together with the JSJN
02:20We found 56 plastic bags containing Pell-Pell-Ecstasy.
02:28We injected Pell-Pell-Ecstasy with a weight of 83 kilograms.
02:36We also carried out further inspection on the rooms in the house.
02:43And we found another 69 bags containing heroin with a weight of 31.2 kilograms.
02:52At the same time, we believe that the house was also used as a mini lab
02:59to process heroin and ecstasy based on the equipment and tools that we found in the house.
03:12Overall, we found 34.5 kilograms of heroin, 1.5 kilograms of heroin-based, 83 kilograms of Pell-Ecstasy,
03:34and 2 kilograms of Pell-Pell-Ecstasy with a value of 14.3 million ringgit.
03:45We also carried out further inspection on the records of the house.
03:48And we found that the main suspect, who was also the driver, had a criminal record in 2014.
03:58Interestingly, this suspect was also arrested in Singapore in 2015 for a drug offence.
04:08And this suspect was actually just released from the Singapore prison in February last year.
04:19So after that, he continued to carry out this drug trafficking activity.
04:25And both of these suspects have been accused of having a criminal record in Section 39B of the Criminal Code.
04:32And if they are found guilty, they can be sentenced to life imprisonment.
04:39And we accused them on the 4th of April last year.
04:43However, we believe that there is still a little bit of hope.
04:47Because this drug is not only for the local market, but also for the Singapore and Indonesia markets.
05:02And we will also take further action under the Criminal Code on the Procurement of Property,
05:10where these properties are being traced for us to confiscate and also for us to procure.
05:16Is the main suspect, who was also the driver, a mastermind or what is his role?
05:23This suspect is a transporter.
05:26A transporter and also a runner to the syndicate.
05:30We still have an impression of him as a mastermind.
05:33And we have also confirmed it.