Police score double major success - The Star

By Lourdes Charles

PETALING JAYA: The police have pulled off two major successes in less than 12 hours, busting the largest gun-running-cum-drug syndicate in the country and solving the S$1.5mil (RM3.5mil) heist at the KL International Airport (KLIA).

A team from Bukit Aman and the Selangor Narcotics Crime Investigation Department (NCID) rounded up 13 members of the syndicate in three separate operations in the Klang Valley, which began at 7.30pm on Friday.

They recovered eight pistols, a machine gun, three hand grenades, 1,000 rounds of ammunition, drug-making paraphernalia and chemicals.

The armed and dangerous group, high on the police wanted list, is believed to have undergone shooting practice in foreign countries it also operated in.

Sources said intensive intelligence gathering by the NCID led to the syndicate being busted.

In the first raid, the team arrested four men at an apartment block in Taman Kenangan in Kajang and recovered four pistols.

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