Petrol station raid foils diesel smuggling bid

SPT Domestic Trade, Co-Opetarives and Consumerism Department Head Branch Md Nasir Mohamad (second left) with his officers sealing the diesel pump during a raid at a petrol station in Butterworth, Penang. Star pic by Asri Abdul Ghani/May 09, 2014

THE Penang Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry has thwarted attempts to smuggle subsidised diesel.

Its central Seberang Prai district enforcement chief Md Nasir Mohamad said that acting on information, his men raided a petrol station in Seberang Jaya at 10am yesterday.