RM30m DRUG HEIST AT CUSTOMS OFFICE
10 raid Customs office, beat up security guards
TEN men pulled off a daring heist, beating up two security guards and escaping with 80 boxes of drugs worth RM30.4 million, at the Customs Department’s Narcotics Unit in Kampung Jijan yesterday.
A police source said the masked robbers entered the Customs lot in two four-wheel drive vehicles and a car around 3am.
The men, armed with sticks, proceeded to beat up two guards and tied them up with masking tape.
“One of the robbers told the security guards that they were there to ‘recover goods taken from them’.
“The drugs were kept in a container unit in front of the Customs office,” the source told the New Straits Times Press.
They proceeded to smash one of the 10 containers and fled with 80 boxes, believed to be filled with drugs.
“Investigations suggested that they knew what they were looking for, as they targeted only one of the containers.
“There is a possibility that the robbers were out to get back items which Customs officers had seized recently,” said the source.
The robbers took 15 minutes to carry out the heist and left the two security guards, both in their 50s, tied up.
“The two men eventually managed to free themselves around 5am and alerted their employer. They lodged a report at the Nilai police headquarters at 8am.”
The heist is believed to be the first of its kind at a Customs office.
Each of the boxes is believed to contain around RM380,000 worth of drugs, with a total value of RM30.4 million.
Details of what type of drugs, as well as where they were first seized, remain unknown.
Meanwhile, Negri Sembilan police chief Datuk Noor Azam Jamaluddin said he was awaiting a full report on the incident.