Over RM750K contraband cigarettes seized
BINTULU: Marine police seized over RM750,000 worth of duty-not-paid cigarettes from a shipping container parked at the roadside along Jalan Bintulu-Tatau today. Sarawak Marine Police Region 5 commander ACP Zulfikar Mohd Ghazali in a statement, said that an operation codenamed ‘Ops Kontraban’ was carried out around 4am after the intelligence unit spotted the container. “The […]
Police seize cigarettes, liquors worth about RM1.8 mln
LIMBANG: The Marine Police here crippled a contraband smuggling syndicate and seized various duty-unpaid cigarettes and liquors worth around RM1.8 million on Nov 5. The team acting on intelligence gathered raided a terrace house used as a warehouse to store the uncustomed goods at Taman Sentosa. Sarawak Marine Police Region Five commander ACP Zulfikar Mohd […]
Ops Kontraban nets RM1.37 mln worth of uncustomed goods
KUCHING: Marine police seized contraband cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and fireworks worth RM1.37 million in raids at separate locations last Thursday (Aug 5). Sarawak Marine Police Region 5 commander ACP Zulfikar Mohd Ghazali said two men were arrested in the operations codenamed ‘Ops Kontraban’, held in Sri Aman and Limbang. The first operation took place around […]
Sarawak CID deputy chief in transfer exercise
KUALA LUMPUR: Sarawak Criminal Investigation Department (Intelligence/Operations) deputy chief ACP Zulfikar Mohd Ghazali is among four senior police officers involved in a transfer exercise effective July 1. He has been appointed as Region Five Marine Police Force headquarters commander in Kuching. Zulfikar replaces ACP Shamsol Kassim who will be appointed as commander of Region One […]
Marine police score state’s biggest contraband seizure
SIBU: Sarawak Marine Police Region 5 based here confiscated more than RM30.14 million worth of contraband items to score the biggest seizure of such items in the state so far this year. Police commissioner Datuk Aidi Ismail said today the successful breakthrough was made on March 12 at Tanjung Kunyit here where six Indonesians including a woman aged between 22 and 39 were […]
Contrabands worth over RM100K seized
KUCHING: The Sarawak Marine Police seized illicit cigarettes and beer worth more than RM100,000 including unpaid taxes on Thursday. Sarawak Marine Police Region 5 commander ACP Shamsol Kassim said the Ops Landai Covid-19 raid was carried out at 4.05pm on a premises in Jalan Setia Raja, Tabuan Jaya. The team inspected the premises and found […]
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 […]
Contraband fags worth RM56,320 seized
SARIKEI: A total of 69,480 sticks of regular and clove contraband cigarettes worth RM56,320 were seized at a commercial centre at Jakar here on Wednesday (June 17). According to a report, Sarawak Marine Police Region Five conducted a raid around 11am at the upper floor of a shoplot and arrested a woman in her 40s. […]
