JOHOR BARU, June 12 — Two Singaporean men were today charged in the Magistrate’s Court here with trafficking 58.6kg worth of illicit drugs last month, for which they face the death sentence if found guilty.
The charges were framed under Section 39Bof the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 which carries a penalty under Section 39B of the same Act and were read together with Section 34 of the Penal Code, which provides for the death penalty or life imprisonment or if not sentenced to death, a minimum of 15 strokes of the cane.
For the first four charges, he was charged with distributing 13,145 grammes of MDMA and methamphetamine.He was also charged with two counts of possessing 680 grammes of ketamine and nimetazepam. Ee also faces an additional two charges, trafficking in MDMA with an estimated weight of 74 grammes and possessing 26.4 grammes of ketamine in an apartment near Persiaran Bumi Hijau, Taman Molek here at 3.40pm on May 29.