Foiled: Attempt to smuggle cockles into Thailand


Insp Anandha Krishnan showing the seized cockles.

ALOR SETAR (Bernama): The Malaysian Border Control Agency (Aksem) in Kedah arrested two men last night (Feb 4) and seized 100kg of cockle spats worth RM50,000 which they believed were to be smuggled into Thailand.

Its deputy chief of Intelligence and Operations, Insp Anandha Krishnan, said they seized the young cockles from a car with two men aged 30 and 35, at KM46.8 on the North-South Expressway, at Changlun town near Kubang Pasu, at 10.10pm.

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