Marine cops foil cooking oil, fuel smuggling bid in Semporna

By DURIE RAINER FONG

The boxes of subsidised cooking oil seized in the operation.

KOTA KINABALU: The marine police foiled an attempt to smuggle out over 1,000kg of subsidised cooking oil and petrol by three men to the Philippines in Sabah’s east coast Semporna district.

While patrolling waters off Tanjung Larapan at about 10pm on Monday (May 22), marine police personnel spotted a boat with suspicious-looking occupants.

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Sabah , Marine Police , Smuggling , Cooking Oil , Petrol , Semporna , Arrests

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