Home Minister says Ops Pagar Laut targets festive season sea smuggling at Klang


KLANG: The latest iteration of Ops Pagar Laut will commence on Feb 27 and last until April 10, Home Ministry Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail says. The minister, when met on a working visit to Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency patrol ship KM Tun Fatimah, said that from 2020 to 2025 the operation has led to 344 arrests for various offences.

"The value of seizures exceeded RM106mil. The states with the most recorded cases are Sabah with 90 cases, Perak with 71 cases and Johor with 52 cases. At the same time there had been 863 cases of attempted entry by a recorded total of 3,700 individuals. These statistics show that the government does not compromise with any syndicate that uses the sea as a backdoor into the country," he said.

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