03 Mar 2019, 9:00 AM
The police drug enforcement department on Saturday raided a house in Malé and arrested 20 suspects from an alleged drug trafficking network.
The house in Maafannu district was searched with a court warrant based on intelligence information of drug peddling.
Some 38 rubber packets with illicit narcotics were seized from the house. The 20 suspects include a minor and a foreign national, police said.
A group of locals selling drugs in Malé were also arrested in an operation last week. The 11 suspects included nine men, one woman and a minor.
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