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Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia
#12668338 - 06/01/10 06:49 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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CHENNAI, June 1 (Bernama) -- The Indian authorities, in a series of arrests lately, detained another trafficker trying to sneak out five kilogrammes of ketamine from Kerala to Malaysia.
On Monday, Air Customs officials at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, Kerala's capital, detained the man, who checked in at the airport to board the AirAsia flight to Kuala Lumpur, after they discovered the drug hidden in his luggage.
This was the second arrest within two weeks in southern India of ketamine traffickers bound for Malaysia with their illegal consignment.
"Officials searched the suspect on suspicion and found the drug skilfully concealed in a plywood chest fitted beneath the bag.
"The drug, in 19 packets weighing about 300gm each, was stored in two cavities and the packets were covered with carbon paper so that X-ray screening of the baggage would not expose the drug," the Hindu newspaper quoted A. Gopakumar, Thiruvananthapuram Deputy Commissioner of Air Customs, as saying.
The 34-year-old suspect from Thanjavur, in Tamil Nadu, was carrying the contraband, worth nearly RM60,000 in the international market, according to officials.
Investigations are still in progress to ascertain whether he is linked to any drug syndicate and where he had obtained the ketamine.
On May 14, Chennai Airport Customs officials seized 14.7kg of ketamine hidden in an ice-cream vending machine, which the suspect was planning to dispose in Kuala Lumpur.
The 32-year-old trafficker, also from Tamil Nadu, was arrested.
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: Coaster]
#12668488 - 06/01/10 07:14 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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For once I think they underestimated the worth of a drug.
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: Shamanintraining]
#12668580 - 06/01/10 07:33 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Shamanintraining said: For once I think they underestimated the worth of a drug.
in india it's cheap. they manufacture it there in many places.
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: Coaster]
#12668614 - 06/01/10 07:40 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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That's a lot of K!
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: samsara607]
#12668621 - 06/01/10 07:42 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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In Malaysia, they'll probably cut his legs off for that.
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: Coaster]
#12668722 - 06/01/10 08:01 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Why did he have to smuggle it? Couldn't he just say he was a vet and they were animal tranquilizers?
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: nooneman]
#12668736 - 06/01/10 08:03 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ketamine is illegal under Section 39b of the Dangerous Drugs Act. Further, anyone caught with ketamine will automatically be charged with trafficking under the same law. The amount doesn’t matter so long as police can demonstrate that a transaction occurred. Penalties start at imprisonment for 5 – 7 yeafs and a whipping of up to 3 strokes. Repeat offenders could face the death penalty.
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: Le_Canard]
#12669090 - 06/01/10 09:08 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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ToiletDuk said: In Malaysia, they'll probably cut his legs off for that.
Cut his legs off? It'll probably be his head. They execute people there for selling marijuana....
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: Dreadnought]
#12669648 - 06/01/10 10:40 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Dreadnought said: Ketamine is illegal under Section 39b of the Dangerous Drugs Act. Further, anyone caught with ketamine will automatically be charged with trafficking under the same law. The amount doesn’t matter so long as police can demonstrate that a transaction occurred. Penalties start at imprisonment for 5 – 7 yeafs and a whipping of up to 3 strokes. Repeat offenders could face the death penalty.
Right, but it's also used by vets as an animal tranquilizer quite legally. So, couldn't he just have said he was a vet?
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: nooneman]
#12671990 - 06/02/10 11:35 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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ya he might as well say he has diplomatic immunity with no credentials too, good idea!
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: LSDaytripper]
#12672010 - 06/02/10 11:40 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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ToiletDuk said: In Malaysia, they'll probably cut his legs off for that.
Cut his legs off? It'll probably be his head. They execute people there for selling marijuana....
Yeah, it'll probably some medieval punishment in Malaysia, that's for sure.
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: nooneman]
#12672031 - 06/02/10 11:44 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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nooneman said:
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Dreadnought said: Ketamine is illegal under Section 39b of the Dangerous Drugs Act. Further, anyone caught with ketamine will automatically be charged with trafficking under the same law. The amount doesn’t matter so long as police can demonstrate that a transaction occurred. Penalties start at imprisonment for 5 – 7 yeafs and a whipping of up to 3 strokes. Repeat offenders could face the death penalty.
Right, but it's also used by vets as an animal tranquilizer quite legally. So, couldn't he just have said he was a vet?
Yeah, and oxycontin is used by doctors and patients legally, but if one of them gets onto a plane with 14 kilos of oxycontin, some bad shit is gonna happen.
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: nooneman]
#12676163 - 06/03/10 12:27 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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nooneman said:
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Dreadnought said: Ketamine is illegal under Section 39b of the Dangerous Drugs Act. Further, anyone caught with ketamine will automatically be charged with trafficking under the same law. The amount doesn’t matter so long as police can demonstrate that a transaction occurred. Penalties start at imprisonment for 5 – 7 yeafs and a whipping of up to 3 strokes. Repeat offenders could face the death penalty.
Right, but it's also used by vets as an animal tranquilizer quite legally. So, couldn't he just have said he was a vet?
Do you honestly think it's that easy?
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: Le_Canard]
#12686404 - 06/04/10 04:22 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Capital punishment in Malaysia applies to murder, drug trafficking, treason, and waging war against Yang di-Pertuan Agong (the King). Recently, the law has been extended to include acts of terrorism. Any terrorists, and anyone who aids terrorists, financially or otherwise, are liable to face the death penalty.
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: Abuse]
#12686467 - 06/04/10 04:33 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Harsh!
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Re: Dude tries to smuggle 12 pounds of Ketamine worth $18,000 to Malaysia [Re: Le_Canard]
#12689310 - 06/05/10 01:06 AM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yeah I know!
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