At a press conference today, Petaling Jaya police chief Mohamad Fakhrudin Abdul Hamid said the students were from private colleges in Sungai Way, Kota Damansara and Shah Alam – where they also supplied the drugs.

“They have been here for four years and they buy, repack and sell (the marijuana) to students in their campus,” he said in a video posted on the Petaling Jaya police headquarters’ Facebook page.

“They would sell (the marijuana) to the people they knew, and all transactions were done in cash”.

Fakhrudin said police nabbed two students at a condominium at around 6.30pm on July 22 before raiding another condominium unit where they arrested another foreigner and a local.

Checks on the first two suspects found 213g of marijuana on them, while the raid on the condominium unit resulted in 5.23kg of marijuana being seized.

Another raid along Jalan Persiaran Golf the next day saw the police arrest two more foreign students and seize over 6.12kg of marijuana in their car.

Fakhrudin said all the suspects have been remanded to assist with further investigations.