SHAH ALAM (Bernama): The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry has foiled an attempt to misappropriate 18,000kg of cooking oil, 8,775 kg of which were subsidised 1kg packets.
The ministry's Selangor director Muhammad Zikril Azan Abdullah said raids carried out on two stores in Puchong found that the embezzlement activity was done by cutting the 1kg packets of subsidised cooking oil and transferring them to a skid tank to be bottled as 2kg and 5kg and sold for higher prices.
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