Police say international drug rings are recruiting financially troubled individuals, especially from Sarawak and Pahang, as drug mules after four arrests.
KUALA LUMPUR: Individuals with financial difficulties, especially those from Sarawak and Pahang, have been targeted by international drug smuggling rings to be recruited as drug mules.
Bukit Aman Narcotics Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said the syndicate’s activities were exposed following the arrest of four individuals, including the foreign mastermind, in Brickfields here yesterday.
The suspects, three locals acting as recruiters and the mastermind, a man holding a Hong Kong passport, who supplied the drugs, were arrested at a homestay in Brickfields, he added.
