RM2.5bil lost to agents of fraud


PETALING JAYA: More than RM2.5bil in taxes and duties have been lost over the past three years, largely due to freight forwarders falsifying documents, says the Customs Department.

In most of the cases, shipments containing taxable items were declared to be other products.

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