RM500,000 sawn rubberwood seized
BUTTERWORTH: Eighteen containers of sawn rubberwood worth more than half a
million ringgit were intercepted before they could be smuggled out from the
North Butterworth Container Terminal here recently.
State Customs Department officers led by Ahmad Tarmizi Daud seized the
consignment worth RM514,898 at the terminal on Aug 20 following a tip-off.
Deputy Customs director Noorhaini Safian said the consignment had been declared
as packing cases and pallet boxes en route to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. No
arrests were made.
“Initial investigations showed that the rubberwood belonged to four companies
in Penang which were not issued with any permit from the Malaysian Timber
Industry Board to export the goods.
“Sawn rubberwood is a prohibited item and cannot be exported unless with
permit as stipulated under the Export Prohibitions Customs Order 1988.
In another case, Noorhaini said the department seized 10 packets of compressed
cannabis weighing 10.5kg at a beach front in Tanjung Bungah on the island on Aug
16.
She said a raiding team led by Customs Superintendent Sulaiman Mohd Ayob laid an
ambush at the site two days earlier following a tip-off that a consignment
containing cannabis had been smuggled in.
“The team waited for two days for someone to collect the goods but nobody
turned up.
“The seized cannabis, with a street value of RM15,000, is believed to have
been smuggled in from a neighbouring country,” she said.
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