KOTA KINABALU: Police here believe that they have crippled a syndicate smuggling fuel to a neighbouring country with the arrest of seven people and the seizure of RM5.5mil worth of subsidised petrol in Semporna.
The syndicate was caught with about 680,200 litres of petrol on barges and lorries when a police team raided their base of operations in the Sungai Pegagau area on Wednesday (March 23).
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