Malaysian police arrest 26 at New Year ’sex party’

Malaysian police arrested a female newsreader, an actress and 24 other revellers at a New Year’s Eve “sex and drugs” party at a Kuala Lumpur hotel, reports said Friday.

The two high-profile women and seven others tested positive for drugs, police said, according to The New Straits Times, which reported that condoms, beer cans and half-eaten pizza were found strewn around the hotel room.

“When police arrived, many of the party goers were already high on drugs,” The Star newspaper quoted an unnamed source as saying, adding that various illegal substances, including cocaine, ketamine and amphetamines were seized.

It said that preliminary investigations showed the sex party was hosted by two men and those who attended it knew each other through Friendster — a social network in the internet.

Police acting on a tip-off raided the gathering at a downtown Kuala Lumpur hotel in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

During the raid, three couples were on the bed while the rest were entertaining themselves believed intoxicated.