Sabah Customs seize smuggled alcohol, ciggies worth over RM5mil

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Customs personnel seized contraband alcohol and cigarettes worth more than RM5.4mil in several operations here this month. The untaxed items were seized after surveillance by the Import Export Unit Sepanggar Port branch as well as the Kota Kinabalu enforcement unit between March 6 and 18. Sabah Customs assistant director-general Mohd Nasir Deraman said in...

Twenty-one-year-old Indonesian RM17,600 for contraband possession in Brunei

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Borneo Bulletin/ANN): Twenty-one-year-old Indonesian national was fined BND5,000 (RM17,600) on Wednesday for possessing smuggled cigarettes. Magistrate Fatin Fikriyah Rosli ordered for Yuki Erdi to serve five months’ jail in default of payment. The customs prosecutor revealed that their enforcement team raided his residence at Kampong Padnunok in Jalan Lamunin on January 15 at 11.05pm. Authorities...

Bukit Aman seizes over RM30mil worth of illicit cigarettes, alcohol in Selangor

PETALING JAYA: An anti-contraband operation by Bukit Aman saw seizures amounting to over RM30mil in three raids in Selangor. Bukit Aman's internal security and public order department director, Comm Datuk Seri Hazani Ghazali (pic), said three raids were conducted in Kajang on Sept 7, which busted a major syndicate smuggling untaxed cigarettes and alcohol. The operation resulted...