Football Every Day: Nov 16, 2011

Nelsen Ng, Zack Yusof and Ian Yee talk about the previous week’s matches, including a short discussion about Ireland’s long awaited join into Euro 2012.

Smuggling of drugs amplified

HIDDEN: Govinden (centre) showing the syabu packets stashed inside the amplifiers

WHEN a courier agent came to the Royal Customs Department Complex at KL International Airport (KLIA) last Saturday at 10pm to pick up three mid-size consignments, there wasn't a reason for the authorities to doubt anything.

Except, for the fact the man came in a Perodua Viva and not a lorry -- the common transport of choice for cargo pick-ups.

Suspicion further heightened when Customs officers found the packages, declared as megaphones on the consignment documents, to be heavier than what the cone-shaped horn used to amplify voices or sounds, should be.

The officers asked the agent to open one of the boxes. Inside was an amplifier.

Suspecting something amiss, Customs opened the amplifier to find five packets of syabu stashed inside its components.

Drugs at your feet

BUSTED: Govinden (far right) showing the hidden syabu. The floor mats were sealed with blue carbon plastics


THE floor mats stuffed inside his backpack did not raise suspicion. But his movements about the KL International Airport (KLIA) did.

On Monday at 7.42am, KLIA Customs officers saw an Indian national suspiciously roaming about the airport's Passenger Terminal 1 Complex with a backpack. The man had just arrived from Delhi on a transit flight from Chennai to Kuala Lumpur.

KLIA Customs director, Datuk M. Govinden, said when officers screened the bag, they only saw three floor mats and clothes inside it.

"He was casually dressed and from his style, we thought he was on a day-visit to Malaysia."

The man, 34, began acting up when officers sought to open and check his bag.