Pic courtesy of General Operations Force (GOF) 7th Battalion. KOTA BARU (Bernama): A man was arrested in Kampung Kebun near Pengkalan Kubor, Tumpat, on Saturday (April 25) for allegedly smuggling exotic animals worth more than RM60,000 into the country. General Operations Force (GOF) 7th Battalion commanding officer Supt Azhari Nusi said the 33-year-old man was detained at 11.30pm, during the operation codenamed ‘Op Benteng’. He said a team of policemen on patrol spotted the man, in a Proton Iswara Aeroback car behaving in a suspicious manner at about 11.20pm. “Inspection of the car found 80 tortoises of the sulcata species worth RM44,000; 12 Indian star tortoises (RM12,000); a reticulated python (RM1,600); three squirrels of the red giant flying species (RM1,800) and a black dragon lizard (RM2,400).