11 April 2013| last updated at 12:03AM
Drugs found in exercise machine
KLIA Customs director Datuk Chik Omar Chik Lim (centre) with KLIA Customs enforcement head Zahari Abdullah (left) and KLIA Customs assistant director Sazali Unus with the seized drugs. Pic by Ahmad Irham Mohd Noor
PUTRAJAYA: An exercise equipment for weight loss turned out to be a smuggling tool for smugglers when 10.55kg of ketamine were found hidden in the machine.
The drugs, valued over RM360,000, was the latest bust by the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Customs Department last Thursday.
KLIA Customs director Datuk Chik Omar Chik Lim said an Indian national, 29, who arrived from Colombo had been arrested.
"The drugs were stuffed up the metal base of the equipment," he said adding that the machine was an Ab Circle Pro, a large disc with handlebars and knee pockets that can rotate the body from side-to-side.
On the same day, Customs officers also arrested a foreign woman who tried to bring in 2.68kg of methamphetamine worth of RM509,200 in a secret compartment of her luggage.
He said the woman, who had flown in from Kathmandu, was arrested at the Low Cost Carrier Terminal while another foreigner was arrested the next day for attempting to smuggle 5.05kg of amphetamine worth RM959,000.
All three have been remanded for seven days.
Chik Omar said the department had thwarted eight attempts to smuggle 39.72kg of drugs worth RM3.6 million from March 15 to April 10.
