Cops end illegal ewaste goldmine

Shanmugamoorthy: ‘We believe that profits raked in by the factory... could easily run into millions of ringgit.’ — Bernama

PETALING JAYA: For five years, a factory the size of four football fields deep in an oil palm estate in Teluk Panglima Garang, Banting, had been turned into an illegal ewaste processing centre.

The clandestine factory, estimated to span over five acres, is believed to have raked in tens of millions of ringgit in profits processing tonnes of ewaste and extracting valuable metals such as uranium, gold, copper and lead since 2019.