KLANG - A total of 10 men, including six foreign nationals, have been detained by the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry (KPDNHEP) last night for suspected involvement in subsidised diesel smuggling.
Selangor KPDNHEP director Mohd Zuhairi Mat Radey said the suspects were detained based on intelligence gathered on an industrial building in Bandar Bukit Raja here since three weeks after vehicles were spotted entering and exiting the building in a suspicious manner.
"An operation was conducted at 10 pm and the suspects, aged between 17 to their 50s, including four locals who worked as lorry drivers and six Myanmar nationals acting as caretakers of the site,” he said at a media conference at the location of the raid today.
"Our intelligence revealed that the syndicate has been conducting subsidised diesel smuggling activities for the past three months in areas not usually associated to such crimes and we feel this is their tactics to evade detection,” he added.
Diesel worth RM97,200 was seized, along with three lorries, six intermediate bulk containers (IBC), two skid tanks filled with diesel and fuel siphoning equipment.
The case is being investigated under the Control of Supplies Act 1961, he added. - BERNAMA
Selangor KPDNHEP director Mohd Zuhairi Mat Radey said the suspects were detained based on intelligence gathered on an industrial building in Bandar Bukit Raja here since three weeks after vehicles were spotted entering and exiting the building in a suspicious manner.
"An operation was conducted at 10 pm and the suspects, aged between 17 to their 50s, including four locals who worked as lorry drivers and six Myanmar nationals acting as caretakers of the site,” he said at a media conference at the location of the raid today.
"Our intelligence revealed that the syndicate has been conducting subsidised diesel smuggling activities for the past three months in areas not usually associated to such crimes and we feel this is their tactics to evade detection,” he added.
Diesel worth RM97,200 was seized, along with three lorries, six intermediate bulk containers (IBC), two skid tanks filled with diesel and fuel siphoning equipment.
The case is being investigated under the Control of Supplies Act 1961, he added. - BERNAMA