Ex-MP urges tighter border checks after Malaysian executed in Singapore
Former Batu Kawan MP Kasthuri Patto has urged Malaysian authorities to step up enforcement at checkpoints and borders, raising questions after the execution of Malaysian K Datchinamurthy in Singapore for drug smuggling.
Kasthuri, who is secretary for DAP’s international affairs bureau, asked why Malaysian police, immigration and customs officers failed to stop and search drug mules before they crossed into Singapore.
“The burning and inevitable question here is why were they not apprehended by customs officers or police on Malaysian soil?
“Did the Malaysian officers not know of the packages on these men or in their vehicles?
“Or were they aware of it but ‘allowed’ them to pass through the Malaysian border checkpoint into Singapore so that they could be apprehended there?” she said in a statement.
Datchinamurthy, 39,…
