CHENNAI: Indian traffickers continue to use ingenous ways to smuggle ketamine out of the country but the authorities are on to their tricks.
Just a day after the Chennai Customs Department foiled an attempt to smuggle 15kg of ketamine to Malaysia, by stashing them among Hindu idols, the authorities intercepted another consignment also destined for Kuala Lumpur.
This time, the suspects used a courier company in Guummidipundi, an industrial town about 45km from Chennai, to export 15kg of ketamine.
Written on the courier docket was the receiver’s name, a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, but no further details were available as the consignment was shipped using a special exporter’s code.
“The ketamine was hidden inside a tandoori cooking pot. The pot comes with a gas burner and underneath we found a stainless steel box, in which there were 14 polythene packets of ketamine,” a Directorate Revenue Intelligence (DRI) official, who is familiar with the investigation told Bernama.
The contraband was estimated to be worth about RM1.5mil in the international market.
According to the officer, no suspect was picked up as the information given by the sender was false.
