The actress gained 10kg for her role in the upcoming Singaporean series 'The Blockbusters', where she plays a member of a plus-sized girl group.
SIBU: The Royal Malaysian Customs Department has thwarted an attempt to smuggle 49.3kg of drugs worth RM2.5mil into Miri and arrested a 34-year-old man.
The drugs were contained in boxes declared as soap base, Sarawak Customs director Norizan Yahya told a press conference in Miri on Friday . "The smugglers employed air cargo services from Kuala Lumpur to Miri, attempting to hide the prohibited items within seemingly innocent ," he said. He added that coordinated intelligence efforts by Putrajaya Customs headquarters and the Sarawak Customs Intelligence Zone led to the smuggling attempt being intercepted at about 8pm on June 27.
"Officers from the Customs Narcotics Unit in Miri acted swiftly to apprehend the suspect, a local man, after he claimed the 24 boxes from an air cargo company," he said.Further examination revealed that each lump contained two plastic packets labelled as Chinese tea.The suspect and his vehicle were seized for investigation under Section 30 of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, he said.
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