Cops probing if ‘lockup scam’ was inside job

MELAKA: Police here are investigating whether it was an inside job in the case where a woman was cheated of RM9,000 in a bid to secure her husband’s release from a police lockup.

Woman cheated of RM9,000 to secure husband's release from lockup

MELAKA: Police are investigating the possibility of an inside job after a 26-year-old woman claimed she was cheated of RM9,000 in a bid to secure her husband's release from a police lockup.

MMEA seizes over 100k contraband cigarettes in Sandakan zone

KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has seized 103,460 contraband cigarette sticks estimated to be worth RM18,978 untaxed in the Sandakan zone Tuesday (Feb 16).

GOF seizes over RM5mil worth of illicit cigarettes in Lahad Datu and Tawau

LAHAD DATU (Bernama): The General Operations Force (GOF) here arrested a man and seized duty-unpaid cigarettes of various brands worth RM4.11mil, hidden in four lorries in Jalan Segama here, on Wednesday (Feb 10).

Positive times ahead for BAT

PETALING JAYA: British American Tobacco Malaysia Bhd (BAT) is set to see improved earnings in 2021 and 2022, backed by higher sales volume of cigarettes.

S'pore recorded over 42 million arrivals and departures in 2020, lowest in 5 years; 22 Covid-19 cases on Monday (Feb 8)

SINGAPORE, Feb 8 (The Straits Times/ANN): Over 42 million travellers were cleared for entry and departure at Singapore's checkpoints last year, a plunge of more than 80 per cent from the year before, while the low-value goods that came in doubled in volume to over 21 million.

Customs Department collected over RM38b revenue in 2020

Teen among four held in RM1.89mil contraband haul by Sabah cops

KOTA KINABALU: Ten containers loaded with contraband cigarettes and alcohol worth RM1.89mil were seized by Sabah police at an open space near Taman Farmosa along the Bundusan road here recently.

Contraband cigs found in God of Fortune figurines

AT first glance, the plump, gold ingot-wielding figurines look like the benevolent smiling Chinese God of Fortune.

Langkawi gets three-month tobacco tax reprieve

LANGKAWI: Business folk on the resort island are relieved after the Federal Government delayed imposing tobacco tax here until March 31.