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RM316,818 contraband fags, alcoholic drinks seized

LIMBANG: Sarawak Marine Police Region 5 Limbang seized contraband cigarettes and alcoholic beverages worth RM316,818 with unpaid taxes and Customs duties  from a premises in Kampung Bidang Darat near here during a raid  on Tuesday. Commander of the region, ACP Shamsol Kassim said a 34-year-old local man was also arrested during the integrated operation together […]

Smuggling attempt thwarted; two with illegal gun arrested

LUNDU: A bid to smuggle 395 cartons of alcoholic beverages to Kalimantan, Indonesia was foiled by the General Operations Force (GOF) last Wednesday (Mar 10). In the evening operation called ‘Ops Benteng Covid’ around 5.30pm, a task force from the GOF Sarawak brigade detained a lorry that was heading towards the border at Kampung Raso […]

Contraband alcohol, cigarettes seized

MIRI: General Operations Force (GOF) 12th Battalion seized contraband alcohol and cigarettes worth RM434,083.40 in two separate raids in Senadin here during an operation codenamed ‘Ops Libas’. In a statement on Wednesday (Feb 17), GOF 12th Battalion commanding officer Supt Tan Hiap Seng said during Tuesday’s (Feb 16) raids on two houses, a local man […]

Contraband alcohol worth more than RM290k seized

SIBU: The General Operations Force (GOF) seized contraband alcohol worth more than RM290,000 from a house last Friday (Feb 5). Acting on public information and intelligence gathered under ‘Ops Libas’, a GOF 10th Battalion carried out the raid around 10.45am on a house suspected to be used to store the contraband alcoholic drinks. As no […]

Over 18,200 litres of contraband alcohol seized

SIBU: The Customs Department seized 18,216 litres of contraband alcohol from a cargo truck near Pasai-Siong junction, Jalan Sibu-Bintulu recently. Customs Sarawak director Herman Shah Abdullah said the seizure was carried out during an operation by its enforcement unit on Feb 1. The team found various duty-not-paid alcoholic beverages inside the truck which is believed […]

Customs seize contraband alcohol in Miri raid

MIRI: Various types of alcoholic beverages suspected to have unpaid tax and customs duties were seized by the Royal Malaysian Customs Department (Customs) Sarawak in a raid on a house in Jalan Sea View here on Wednesday (Jan 20). Sarawak Customs director Herman Shah Abdullah said personnel from Miri and Bintulu, together with the department’s […]

Contraband beer worth over RM38k seized

KUCHING: The Sarawak Marine Police Region 5 seized 250 crates of beer with unpaid tax and Customs duties during an operation on Tuesday (Jan 19). Its commander ACP Shamsol Kassim said his men came across a suspicious lorry in Kota Sentosa at 2.15pm while conducting Ops Landai patrolling activities. He said the operations team then […]

Contrabands worth over RM320,000 seized

MIRI: The General Operations Force (GOF) seized contraband cigarettes and alcoholic beverages worth more than RM320,000 in two separate raids on Monday. According to a spokesperson of GOF, the raids were carried out by a team from the GOF 12th Battalion from 11am to 1.30pm. The first raid was at a shop at Jalan Taman […]

Contrabands worth over RM44k seized

MIRI: Marine police seized cigarettes and alcoholic beverages worth RM44,388 including unpaid duties in a raid on a premises in Bekenu on Thursday. Sarawak Marine Police commander ACP Shamsol Kassim in a statement today said, the seized items comprised illicit cigarettes with unpaid duty worth RM22,690 and contraband alcohol worth RM21,698. He said at 2.30pm, […]

Contraband beers seized

MIRI: The Customs Department on Wednesday seized 3,834.53 litres of various brands of beer worth RM29,705 with unpaid duties and taxes valued at RM119,287. The total estimated value of the contrabands including duties and taxes is RM148,993. Sarawak Customs director Herman Shah Abdullah said the alcoholic beverages were seized during a raid conducted at a […]