GOF seizes 3,000 smuggled turtle eggs near Sandakan


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 18 Apr 2021

KOTA KINABALU: The General Operations Force (GOF) have seized 3,000 turtle eggs from a boatman trying to slip into waters near Sandakan in Sabah's east coast.

Sandakan-based GOF Battalion 15 commander Supt Toipi Lamat said the 31-year-old boatman was arrested after his boat was intercepted off Nunuyan Darat in Sandakan at about 8.30pm on Saturday (April 17).

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