KULAI, Sept. 24 -- A factory fire in a large multinational industrial area in Senai here on September 14 has exposed an illicit drug processing and distributing syndicate that has international links.

Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) director Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said the authorities were still investigating if the factory fire was accidental or a deliberately act.

He said that after the blaze, police and the Fire and Rescue Department found that the factory was being used as a drug processing laboratory.

"The inspection, conducted together with a federal police NCID team, found a large metal tray with 14 plastic containers containing powder suspected to be the psychotropic drug Erimin 5 weighing an esti...