Marine police foil cooking oil smuggling bid in Sabah

Busted: The truck carrying sacks of ­cooking oil seized in Sandakan.

KOTA KINABALU: Marine police on the east coast of Sandakan district foiled an attempt to smuggle subsidised cooking oil to neighbouring islands in the Philippines.

However, the smugglers managed to flee after seeing an approaching marine police patrol boat as they were unloading the oil packages stored in sacks at a riverbank at Kampung Sugai Bakau here at about 4.30pm on Sunday.