MMEA foils attempt to smuggle 1,156 packets of cooking oil in Semporna

SEMPORNA (Bernama): An attempt by three foreign men to smuggle 1,156 packets of cooking oil to a neighbouring country failed when two of them were arrested while loading the supplies into three boats in Kampung Bangau-Bangau here Saturday (Sept 25).

Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency’s (MMEA) Semporna Zone director Commander Norrimi Hassan said members on duty in ‘Op Pluto Timur’ were deployed to the location after receiving information from its maritime intelligence unit regarding the movement of suspicious boats near a ‘kelong’ (fish farm) at the scene at 5.30am.