Malaysians arrested in Australian drug swoop On August 10, 2011

Five Malaysian men have been arrested in Sydney and Melbourne after
allegedly trying to set up a drug trafficking network along the east
coast.

Police say they seized $AU4 million worth of drugs during raids in three Sydney suburbs on Tuesday.

Two
kilograms of ice and 2.1 kilograms of heroin were allegedly found at
the properties in the Sydney CBD and at Cabramatta and Hurstville, in
the city's south-west and south.

Police say the men travelled to
Australia for the express purpose of setting up a trafficking network
servicing Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland.

Officers from the NSW
Asian Crime Squad pounced yesterday after a six-month investigation, in
cooperation with the Australian Federal Police and the NSW Crime
Commission.

Police say the five arrests include the two men allegedly running the syndicate, aged 28 and 48.

They
were arrested late on Tuesday, one at a restaurant in Sydney's
Chinatown and the other while he was travelling to Sydney Airport.

The men have been charged with offences including supplying commercial quantities of ice and heroin.

Both were refused bail to face court on Wednesday.

Police then arrested two more men, aged 38 and 39, at Cabramatta and Hurstville.

Again
both were charged with offences including supplying a commercial
quantity of an illegal drug, and refused bail to face court on
Wednesday.

The final arrest was a 23-year-old detained by AFP officers in Melbourne.