KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 4 -- Bukit Aman's Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (JSJN) has detained six local men over a drug smuggling case involving a Malaysian co-pilot arrested at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia, with four of the suspects having fled to Thailand and Vietnam after learning of his arrest.

The six were detained in a special operation conducted between August 20 and 28, following information obtained from questioning of the 39-year-old co-pilot by a team of JSJN officers sent to Jakarta from August 11 to 15, Berita Harian reported.

Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk Hussein Omar Khan Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said the six were believed to have acted...