Singapore executes Malaysian for drug trafficking
Friday - July 14, 2017 3:26 pm ,
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Singapore executes Malaysian for drug trafficking
Singapore July 14 (IANS) A Malaysian national Prabagaran Srivijayan was executed here on Friday after being sentenced to death in 2014 for importing heroin.
Prabagaran 29 was hanged to death at the Changi Prison at 6 a.m.
He was arrested in April 2012 at the Woodlands Checkpoint after two packets carrying 22.24 grams of the drug were recovered from a Malaysian-registered vehicle that he was driving the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said.
The Singapore Court of Appeal on Thursday dismissed an eleventh-hour motion to halt his execution reports Channel News Asia.
The Misuse of Drugs Act provides for death penalty if the amount of heroin imported is more than 15 grams.
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