Smuggling ops smoked out by marine police
PONTIAN: A foreign cargo ship travelling frequently between Perak and Batam, Indonesia, in the last one month raised the suspicion of marine police, leading to the seizure of illicit cigarettes worth RM52mil. Bukit Aman Internal Security and Public Order Department director Comm Datuk Seri Abd Rahim Jaafar said that the Mongolian-registered vessel was coming from Myanmar and heading towards Batam. He added that marine police stopped the vessel at 2.9 nautical miles south-west of Pulau Kukup at about 8.15pm on Monday night after noticing it travelling back and forth very frequently in the last...