Thwarted shot to smuggle in fags, alcohol
SERIAN: An attempt to smuggle in illicit cigarettes and alcoholic drinks worth more than RM300,000, was thwarted by the police in Serian market yesterday. The operation carried out by Sarawak Criminal Investigation Department (CID), took place around 4.40am when the team spotted a suspiciously parked vehicle behind a shop. Serian OCPD DSP Aswandy Anis revealed […]
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Racket smuggling drugs in religious items smashed
KUALA LUMPUR: An international drug trafficking syndicate that smuggled drugs in religious items was busted after police arrested 12 men, including a Taiwanese national as well as a woman around the Klang Valley on Monday (March 8). Police checks revealed that the Taiwanese national, aged 30, was the mastermind of the syndicate that had been active […]
Deploy sniffer dogs at entry points
KUCHING: Sarawak’s dog unit must be beefed up to enable sniffer dogs be placed at all entry points in order to effectively sniff out drugs. Drug Prevention Association of Malaysia (Pemadam) Sarawak chairman Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah stressed that the federal government needed to ensure that all entry points were properly controlled as many […]
Smuggled LPG tanks handed over to Sarawak KPDNHEP
KUCHING: Thirty-one liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanks, seized on Jan 23, have been handed over to the Sarawak Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (KPDNHEP). Last Saturday, the General Operations Force (GOF) arrested a local man and seized a four-wheel-drive (4WD) vehicle used for transporting the LPG tanks, at Kampung Raso, Jalan Ladang Sawit, […]
Army thwarts smuggling bid
BAU: An attempt to smuggle out controlled goods worth more than RM80,000 using two lorries was thwarted by the army in Serikin on Monday. The First Infantry Division said a patrol team spotted the lorries travelling fast towards the Malaysia-Indonesia border at 11pm. The team managed to stop the lorries about 500 metres from the […]
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 […]
Controlled goods smuggling thwarted
LUNDU: The General Operations Force (GOF) successfully thwarted an attempt to smuggle controlled goods out of Sarawak on Monday. According to a spokesperson of GOF, the incident happened at 4.50pm when a team from the GOF 11th Battalion was carrying out patrols at the Malaysia-Indonesia border in Kampung Raso, Lundu. The team spotted a local […]
Rice smuggling still rampant in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: Rice smuggling activities are still rampant in border areas despite regular enforcement operations mobilised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries’ Padi and Rice Regulatory division. Foreign syndicates are known to smuggle rice, purchased cheaply in countries such as Thailand and Vietnam, through illegal routes or lorong tikus at the border into […]
RM992, 350 contraband cigarettes and beer seized
KUCHING: The Sarawak General Operations Force (GOF) Brigade seized RM992, 350 worth of contraband cigarettes and beer here on Wednesday (Sept 16). According to the 11th Battalion commanding officer, Supt Rosdi Inai, the goods were seized from a house at Jalan Lapangan Terbang here. He said 16 personnel from the 11th Battalion were involved in […]
