A Malaysian woman claims she was apprehended and placed in lock-up by authorities in an airport in China after she was carrying a friend's bag that contained pills.
45-year-old Lisa Lim said she was on her way back to Malaysia after holidaying in Kunming, China on Jan 7 when she was detained by the authorities.
Read more at https://shorturl.at/rxKU1
WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news
SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar
LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline
45-year-old Lisa Lim said she was on her way back to Malaysia after holidaying in Kunming, China on Jan 7 when she was detained by the authorities.
Read more at https://shorturl.at/rxKU1
WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news
SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar
LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 A Malaysian woman claimed she was apprehended and placed in lockup by authorities in an
00:07 airport in China after she was carrying a friend's bag that contained pills.
00:13 45-year-old Lisa Lim said she was on her way back to Malaysia after holidaying in Kunming,
00:19 China on January 7.
00:21 According to Lim, her friend Adhatin Ng asked her to hold on to her bag, claiming that she
00:27 had other luggage to look after.
00:30 "When I was at the airport, I didn't suspect my friend Adhatin.
00:38 I just thought that he was just carrying her to help her.
00:45 If it was a friend, wouldn't you help her?
00:51 I just carried her like that.
00:54 It didn't take long.
00:57 I didn't exclude him or doubt him.
01:00 I just helped her.
01:02 I just put her in my luggage.
01:06 That's how I did it."
01:08 Lim was later stopped by Chinese immigration officers at the checkpoint.
01:12 She said the bag that she was holding on to contained a large amount of Chinese medicines
01:17 in the form of compressed pills.
01:20 However, despite drug-sniffing dogs detected no signs of narcotics, the Chinese authorities
01:25 still detained her.
01:27 Meanwhile, Lim's friends boarded their flight back to Malaysia.
01:30 Lim was released from custody on February 7 and returned home a day later.
01:36 She added that she was unable to contact her family and friends the entire time.
01:40 On her return, Lim confronted Ng over the bag but was brushed off.
01:45 She said this during a press conference on Tuesday at Wisma MCA.
01:50 Meanwhile, MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk S. Michael Chong said
01:56 that the ordeal had damaged Lim's reputation and caused great stress to her and her family.
02:02 "So please, I know everyone was a driver, I know everyone was a good friend, I know.
02:07 But don't ever, ever help anyone to carry the products.
02:14 Because this already happened many times.
02:18 And she spent one month and lucky thing she come back.
02:25 I mean with the, you know, come back still see the children.
02:30 That one is not drug.
02:31 If drug she will be today, I think she will face capital punishment.
02:36 It's not drug.
02:37 It's already proved.
02:39 Because that's why the authority released her.
02:42 But the thing you come back, you deny knowing this.
02:48 The family suffer, the children suffer.
02:51 All the friends got misunderstanding on her and it's very unfair to her.
02:55 This is what I want to emphasize on behalf of Lisa."
03:00 Department Legal Advisor James E said he had advised Lim on any potential lawsuit against
03:05 Ng.
03:05 For more information visit www.FEMA.gov
03:15 [BLANK_AUDIO]