[ENGLISH VERSION BELOW] Persatuan Pengguna Pulau Pinang (CAP) menyifatkan ia sebagai memalukan Malaysia apabila Polis Persekutuan Australia (AFP) memintas penghantaran 336kg heroin bernilai RM795 juta dari Malaysia ke Brisbane. Rampasan itu disifatkan sebagai “kedua terbesar dalam rekod” Australia.
Sekiranya AFP tidak menemui penghantaran itu, 336kg itu akan memusnahkan nyawa beribu-ribu orang. Di seluruh dunia lebih daripada 106,200 orang mati akibat pengambilan berlebihan dadah manakala sebanyak 35 juta orang berhadapan dengan penyalahgunaan atau ketagihan bahan dalam beberapa bentuk pada 2021.
Amat sukar untuk memahami bagaimana blok konkrit dengan heroin sebanyak itu boleh terlepas daripada pengesanan pihak berkuasa Malaysia. Untuk penghantaran yang begitu besar, ia melibatkan dalang serta ramai orang di pelbagai peringkat operasi.
Oleh sebab itu, kami menggesa pihak berkuasa Malaysia agar melancarkan siasatan dengan bekerjasama dengan AFP untuk menangkap semua mereka yang terlibat tanpa mengira status sosial atau pekerjaan mereka.
Aktiviti haram itu amat memalukan terutamanya apabila percubaan itu tidak dikesan di banyak peringkat di Malaysia sehinggalah ia tiba di Australia. – CAP
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Mohideen Abdul Kader ialah president Persatuan Pengguna Pulau Pinang
English version
National embarrassment: RM795m heroin shipment from Malaysia to Australia intercepted
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) calls it a national embarrassment to Malaysia when the Australian Federal Police (AFP) intercepted a 336kg shipment of heroin worth RM795 million from Malaysia to Brisbane. The seizure was described as Australia’s “second largest bust on record”.
Had the AFP not discovered the shipment, the 336kg would have destroyed the lives of thousands of people. Globally more than 106,200 people died from drug overdose while as many as 35 million people were dealing with substance abuse or addiction in some form in 2021.
It is hard to comprehend how the concrete blocks with that much of heroin can escape the Malaysian authorities’ detection. For such a large shipment, it involves the mastermind as well as multiple people at various levels of operation.
We therefore call on the Malaysian authorities launch an investigation by cooperating with AFP to arrest all those who are involved regardless of their social status or occupation. Such illegal activity is an absolute embarrassment particularly when the attempt was not detected at so many levels in Malaysia until it arrived in Australia. – CAP
Mohideen Abdul Kader is president of the Consumers Association of Penang
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