Xavier: Authorities should form task force and clamp down on illicit liquor


Dr Xavier Jayakumar. -filepic

PETALING JAYA: Water, Land and Natural Resources Minister Dr Xavier Jayakumar has called upon the authorities to clamp down on the sale of counterfeit liquor at grocery shops, following a mass alcohol poisoning that has already claimed 19 lives.

Dr Xavier said that the police, Land Office, Customs, Local Council and other relevant government agencies should form a task force and conduct major operations to “flush out” the sale of illicit alcoholic beverages from the market.

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