KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 (Bernama) -- Drug traffickers have resorted to using express buses and express bus terminals in the city and other towns as meeting and distribution places for drugs said the police.
Kuala Lumpur Narcotics Chief ACP Kang Chez Chiang said they would pretend to be passengers and place their bags in luggage compartments or inside the bus before a second party retrieved them at a specified destination.
"The bags will then be retrieved by another party when it reaches a specified destination and later distributed," he told Bernama.
Bus terminals in the city, especially Jalan Pudu, Hentian Putra, Jalan Duta, Gombak and Jalan Pekeliling have been identified as places for such activities, he said.
Kang added that in some cases, drug traffickers used unsuspecting express bus drivers as couriers by paying them to ferry the bags from one destination to another.
He reminded the public, especially passengers of express buses or drivers, to be careful of such activities and avoid becoming couriers for such bags when approached by unknown individuals since such bags may contain drugs.
Kang said such syndicates normally bought tickets to the East Coast, to the South or places bordering Thailand, for such purposes.
Police have succeeded in crippling a number of international syndicates that had used bus terminals as meeting places for drug traffickers and in most cases busted by police, drugs were found hidden among clothes, under garments and toiletry, he said.
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