Ops nets RM75k smuggled fags, booze
BINTULU: Contraband cigarettes and liquor worth more than RM75,000 were seized in an operation aptly codenamed Ops Kontraban here, last Friday (June 18). Marine Police personnel with assistance from the Kampung Warisan Jepak roadblock personnel, carried out an operation at Jalan Pesisir Pantai Bintulu-Kuala Tatau around 9am. Sarawak Marine Police Region 5 commander ACP Shamsol […]
Sibu Customs arrests two men, seizes contraband cigarettes
SIBU: Customs officials arrested two men for allegedly transporting nearly 4.5 million sticks of contraband cigarette in a truck. Sarawak Customs director Herman Shah Abdullah said the operations was carried out around 9.55am in front of Camp Oya on April 15. Customs personnel stopped a suspicious looking truck for inspection and found a total of […]
960k sticks of contraband fags seized
KUCHING: Customs officials have foiled cigarette smuggling activities and seized 960,000 duty-not-paid cigarette sticks in an empty house at Jalan Kuap recently. State Customs director Herman Shah Abdullah said a raid was carried out at 10.19pm by the Customs Kuching enforcement unit following information received. “The team raided the uninhabited house, believed to be used […]
RM300,000 contraband fags, liquors seized
KUCHING: The General Operations Force (GOF) seized contraband cigarettes and alcoholic beverages worth more than RM300,000 last Sunday. In the morning operation dubbed ‘Ops Libas’ around 7.45am, a team from GOF Sarawak Brigade headquarters carried out a raid around Kampung Sudat. GOF Sarawak Brigade commander SAC Mancha Ata said the team found five locals aged […]
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 […]
Illicit cigarettes seized, shopkeeper arrested
KUCHING: Police seized contraband cigarettes worth more than RM7,000 in a sundry shop at Taman Sri Sarawak, Jalan Bukit Mata during a raid last Friday. The raid was carried out by a task force from the central police station led by its chief ASP Ahmad Abang around 9.40pm. The team found various cigarettes stashed under […]
Contraband cigarettes destroyed
KUCHING: Police here disposed of 250,000 sticks of contraband cigarettes worth RM16,000 on Wednesday (Feb 3). Kuching District police chief ACP Awang Din Awang Gani said the cigarettes were previously seized by the Sarawak Marine Police on Jun 5 last year. The destroyed contraband cigarettes consisted of 500 cartons of ERA Filter (red), 250 cartons […]
Contraband cigs worth over RM47k seized in raid
KUCHING: Personnel from the Sarawak Marine Police Region 5 seized contraband cigarettes valued over RM47,000 during Ops Landai on Wednesday (Jan 20). Its commander ACP Shamsol Kassim said his men had earlier raided an unnumbered premises at Court Road in Bintangor at around 5.30pm. He said the premises was used as a storage for various […]
Two men arrested after car chase
LIMBANG: The marine police arrested two men at Kampung Ipai here on suspicion of smuggling contraband cigarettes. The incident happened around 8pm on Monday (Jan 18) when a patrol team spotted two suspicious-looking vehicles. When the team approached, the vehicles sped off and a car chase ensued. Sarawak Marine Police Region 5 commander ACP Shamsol […]
GOF seizes contrabands worth RM3 million
KUCHING: The General Operations Force (GOF) seized smuggled cigarettes and liquor estimated to be worth more than RM3 million here and in Miri on Wednesday. GOF Sarawak commander SAC Mancha Ata said the contrabands were confiscated during an inspection at a workshop at Mile 13, Jalan Kuching-Serian here, at about 1am on that day. He […]
