NILAI: Members of a syndicate tried almost all the tricks in the book to hoodwink Customs officers and smuggle 184kg of methamphetamine out of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport but failed.

       The drugs worth RM6.6mil were stashed inside equipment declared as “electric contact grills” during an inspection at the KLIA Cargo Unit on Aug 16, Customs director- general Datuk Seri Abdul Latif Abdul Kadir told reporters at the Customs (Narcotics) headquarters at Kampung Jijan near here.

       The suspects were trying to smuggle the drugs to a country in the Asia-Pacific through the cargo section, he added.

       Abdul Latif said four suspects believed to have links with the syndicate had been detained and remanded for 14 days.

       Two of them were caught with the drugs at KLIA, while the other two suspects were detained in follow-up raids in Nilai.

       Abdul Latif said a preliminary probe showed that the syndicate had sent such cargo via KLIA before.