KUCHING, Oct 15: Five Sarawakians, including three women, have been detained in Japan after five kilogrammes of cocaine were found hidden in the insoles of shoes they were wearing at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo.
Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said Malaysian police received information from Japanese customs on Oct 10 regarding the detention of two men and three women at the airport.
Checks on travel records found that six Malaysians aged between 19 and 26 had departed together from Kuala Lumpur International Airport Terminal 2 for Haneda on Oct 9, reportedly for a holiday.
“Five of them were detained by Japanese authorities on Oct 10, while the sixth individual was not detained and had returned to Malaysia,” he said in a statement yesterday (Oct 14).
