Abandoned smokes worth over RM17mil in unpaid taxes seized

Customs assistant director general (Enforcement) Datuk Johari Alifiah (centre) showing cigarette cartons seized from two abandoned containers in Port Klang. - AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

PUTRAJAYA: The Royal Malaysian Customs Department has seized 130,000 cartons of foreign cigarettes, worth RM17.34mil in unpaid taxes.

Customs assistant director-general (Enforcement) Datuk Johari Alifiah said the company that is believed to have brought in the cigarettes from Basrah, Iraq was found not to have verified import permits.