Malaysian authorities have seized more than two tons of crystal methamphetamine worth more than $26 million aboard a small boat off the country’s western coast, the largest ever such haul in the country’s history.
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said over the weekend that it made the seizure on December 9 off the coast of Penang.
The agency said in a statement that a maritime patrol found the drugs on a recreational boat that was behaving strangely. Methamphetamine is illicitly smuggled across much of Southeast Asia, China and Australia, part of a multi-billion dollar illegal trade in the drug.