Malaysia Crime Watch

25 January 2007
Kuala Lumpur

Ketamine has been found to be smuggled through the country in instant cereal packets. Police and narcotics force arrested a 41-year-old man in the Kuala Lumpur Sentral station in Brickfields on Monday.

The man was found with over 2kg of ketamine packed carefully in 40 sachets. He was to courier the drugs to Taiwan.

Police say that the drugs were brought in by syndicates from India and were on their way to syndicates in Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand.

The Star Online – Ketamine smuggled in cereal packets
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24 January 2007
Miri

A 33-year-old magistrate from Pahang serving at the Miri Court Complex has been found dead on the floor of a Miri city motel room that he has been staying for the past few months. The motel is only 300 metres from his workplace.

Khairul Yunus Jamil’s body was discovered by a visiting court staff after the magistrate was on sick leave for the past week. He had complained of feeling unwell before then.

Police has not given any indication of cause of death.

The body has been placed at the Miri Hospital mortuary, where the post-mortem would be conducted.

The Star Online – Magistrate found dead in motel room
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/24/nation/20070124190830&sec=nation>

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24 January 2007
Kuala Lumpur

Police have arrested a financial adviser who was involved in a RM2.7 million investment scam in Australia 10 years ago. He has been eluding the police in the Asian region for the past 5 years until he was detected to be operating another investment scheme in Labuan.

The man had been held at the Sungai Buloh prison awaiting extradition to Australia.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission revealed that the man and his partner, Ian William Snook, were committed to stand trial in Adelaide on more than 70 cases of offering dubious investments, inducement to invest in securities and publishing false portfolio statements.

Snook was convicted in October 2003 and sentenced to two years’ jail but released later on a A$1,000 two-year good behaviour bond.

New Straits Times – Held: Man wanted in Australia for scam
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Wednesday/National/20070124090328/Article/local1_html>

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