Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency personnel keeping guard of the three Filipinos caught red-handed smuggling out controlled goods to their country on Sunday morning (Feb 9).
KOTA KINABALU: A smuggling attempt by three Filipino nationals to transport petrol and other controlled goods from Sabah to the Philippines was thwarted by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) early Sunday (Feb 9) morning.
Kudat Maritime Zone director Maritime Commander Hasbullah Omar said the operation was based on intelligence gathered by the Kudat Maritime Zone Intelligence Unit, which detected suspicious loading activities involving fuel and other controlled goods at 12.13am.
