Malaysian claims she was detained in China for carrying friend's pills

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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

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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

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