Company director charged with cheating Nigerian firm of RM400,000 in cooking oil fraud case

KUALA LUMPUR: A company director pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here Friday (Aug 22) to fraud involving the supply of 10 containers of Palm Olein CP10 cooking oil last year. Nuruliman Haidi Che Mansor, 44, is charged with deceiving Global Foods and Confectionaries KFZE (Nigeria) through its representatives Abdulrahman Muhammad Garba and Sani Abdullahi...

Restaurant manager fined RM100,000 for hoarding subsidised cooking oil

SEREMBAN: A manager of a company running a nasi kandar restaurant has been fined RM100,000 by the Sessions Court here after he pleaded guilty to a charge of storing subsidised cooking oil at an unlicensed premise. Judge Mohamad Kamil Nizam ordered 38-year-old Bangladeshi Das Jhonny Chardra to serve six months in jail in the event he...

Restaurant manager fined RM100,000 for hoarding subsidised cooking oil

SEREMBAN: A manager of a company running a nasi kandar restaurant has been fined RM100,000 by the Sessions Court here after he pleaded guilty to a charge of storing subsidised cooking oil at an unlicensed premise. Judge Mohamad Kamil Nizam ordered 38-year-old Bangladeshi Das Jhonny Chardra to serve six months in jail in the event he...

Relieved consumers hope for fast solutions over bottled cooking oil shortage

JOHOR BARU: Consumers are relieved that the government is taking steps to stabilise the supply of bottled cooking oil in the market and hope that quick actions can be implemented. Homemaker Siti Nadirah Mohd Noh, 41, hopes the cooking oil shortage will be resolved before Hari Raya Aidilfitri as demand is expected to rise. “My family usually...

Ministry seizes 11 tons of controlled goods in Sarawak

KUCHING: The Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry seized over 11 tons of controlled commodities believed to be misappropriated at a premises in Kampung Stungkor, Lundu, some 50km from here. The ministry's Sarawak director Matthew Dominic Barin said the seizure on Monday (Nov 13) involved 9,864kg of raw sugar and 2,078kg of cooking oil, valued...

Trader fined RM10,000 for selling cooking oil above controlled price

IPOH: A grocery trader was fined RM10,000 after pleading guilty in the Teluk Intan Sessions Court on Friday for selling cooking oil above the controlled price. The Perak branch of the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry in a statement on Friday (Oct 18) informed that Rasina Mohamed Ajmul Khan, 34, faces four months in...

Govt to set subsidised cooking oil distribution locations to curb leakage, says Armizan

SHAH ALAM: The government will now determine the locations for distributing subsidised cooking oil packets to retail outlets to prevent further leakage of controlled goods, says Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali (pic). The Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Minister explained that previously, packaging companies were responsible for deciding distribution locations and deliveries, based on demand. "In the past,...

Chicken subsidy removal: Over 3,000 enforcement officers to monitor prices

KUALA LUMPUR: Enforcement personnel are being mobilised to monitor chicken prices after subsidies for the item were removed today, says Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali. The acting Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Minister said 2,300 enforcement personnel and some 900 price monitoring officers had been deployed to monitor the situation at all levels, including at hypermarkets,...