CNB and ICA foil another attempt to smuggle drugs hidden in sanitary pads into Singapore

04 Dec 2011

Following a similar interception on 1 December 2011, the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) and Immigration Checkpoints and Authority (ICA) foiled another 2 attempts by Malaysian females smuggling drugs into Singapore hidden in sanitary pads. Both interceptions were made at Woodlands Checkpoint.

In the latest case in the afternoon of 3 December 2011, ICA officers stopped one Malaysian registered ‘pirate’ taxi at Woodlands Checkpoint car arrival bay. Inside the taxi was one male Malaysian driver and two female Malaysian passengers. CNB officers conducted a search on the vehicle and its passengers and the first female passenger was found to have concealed approximately 924 grammes of heroin kept in two bundles hidden between two sanitary pads in her underwear. The twenty-three year old was wearing two pieces of underwear and two pairs of tights.

Another female CNB officer then searched the second female passenger, 28, and recovered approximately 702 grammes of heroin and 254 grammes of Ice kept in four bundles concealed between three sanitary pads in her underwear and two pairs of tights. The total drug seizure for this case was about 1.6kg of heroin and 254 grammes of Ice, with a street value of S$307,700. The 60-year-old part time taxi driver is assisting CNB in its investigations. The two female passengers may face the death penalty, if convicted.

In an earlier case on Friday night, 2 December 2011, a female Malaysian’s attempt to smuggle into Singapore an assortment of drugs comprising small amount of Ice, cannabis and 20 ecstasy tablets was also thwarted by CNB and ICA officers at the Woodlands Checkpoint. The 21-year-old female Malaysian had secured the plastic bag containing the drugs onto her underwear and wore a pair of tights over her underwear.

Dir CNB Huang Wen Yi (Ng Boon Gay) said, “CNB was able to intercept these three cases of drug importation into Singapore successfully over a 3-day period with the close support of our Home Team counterparts. Drug syndicates will continue to think of ingenious ways to smuggle drugs into Singapore but CNB will continue to stay ahead of them and intensify our enforcement efforts to ensure that they do not succeed.”

CENTRAL NARCOTICS BUREAU

4 DECEMBER 2011

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