Singapore: A Malaysian man from India has been sentenced to death by the court to give heroin in Singapore and acts as an intermediary for drug traders, according to a media report.
Kishor Kumar Raguan, 41, rode his motorcycle to Singapore to send a bag containing more than 900 grams of flour in July 2016.
The four bundles in the bag were brought and were analyzed to contain 36.5 grams of heroin.
The law provides a death penalty if the number of heroin trades is more than 15 grams.
Singapore National from China Pung Ah Kiang, 61, who received a bag from Raguan, was sentenced to life in prison for having a drug for human trafficking purposes.
In the written reason released on Friday, the Judge of the High Court Audrey Lim said he found that both Raguan and Pung knew that the bundle contained heroin, the newspaper The Straits Times reported on Friday.
Raguan’s defense that he believed the bag contained “stone”, the judge said the Indian people were involved in drug activities, failed to show that he truly believed that the bundle contained something harmless.
He found that Kishor was told that the items to be sent were “Kallu”, which he knew called Heroin.
Judge Lim also refused Pung’s claim that he did not know what was in the bag and only took care of him while his brother-in-law.
He imposed an imprisonment of life in Pung when he was certified by prosecution to substantially help the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in disrupting drug trafficking activities, the report said.
“When prosecution did not issue a Kishor with a substantive aid certificate, I passed the mandatory death sentence on him,” said the Judge.
Raguan had brought a bag containing a drug bundle to Singapore on July 29, 2016, and sent it to Pung near the Paya condo wide.
Pung was captured by CNB officers as he walked back to his condo.
He was then escorted to his house, where more drugs were found.
DNA Raguan was found in the bundle he sent to Pung.
The prosecution argued that Raguan knew he gave “Kallu” – the street name for heroin – and was told to collect Singapore dollars 6,000 from Pung.
The prosecution said that Raguan was no stranger to illegal drugs because he acted as an intermediary for drug transactions.
In his defense, Raguan said he was promised $ 160 to give something to Singapore and was told that the item was “like a stone”.
He claimed that he thought they could become decorative stones or stones and gravel, but did not think too much about it.
The convicts claimed that he described the black bundle but did not recognize “brown things” in it.