The High Court found Samad Mohamad Sultan guilty of trafficking in 3.9 kg of ketamine, a party drug, at the KL International Airport two years ago, national news agency Bernama said.
Justice Siti Mariah Ahmad handed down the sentence on the 44-year-old trader after finding that the prosecution had succeeded in proving the case against the accused. The trader was charged with trafficking in the drugs at the arrival hall of the airport on February 25, 2009.
He was carrying the ketamine in a jewellery box. The judge said Samad, in his defence, had told the court that he had received an order from a Malaysian trader identified as Jaafar to send some goods from India to Malaysia.
The judge said the defence had failed to call Jaafar to testify. She said Samad had claimed that he met a friend named Ismail in Mumbai who had given him some goods to be handed over in Malaysia. Samad had claimed that he did not check the goods.
"The Court finds that the goods ordered by Jaafar is merely fictitious," she said. The judge also said that the other defence submitted by the accused were fictitious.
Published 25 April 2011, 12:18 IST