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Police seize cooking oil hidden in packages of diapers
Police seize cooking oil hidden in packages of diapers
23/01/2008 (NST Online), Rantau Panjang - Police seized 782 kg of cooking oil worth about RM2,400 inside packages of diapers in an operation at the Che Dollah illegal jetty on Sunday.
No one was arrests in the 9am operation.
General Operations Force Eighth battalion commanding officer Supt Rooslan Radzi said his officers were conducting routine checks in the area when they spotted several boxes abandoned at an illegal jetty here about 9pm.
"On checking, they found 23 diaper packages containing 782 plastic packages of cooking oil. The commodity was believed to be destined for Thailand," he told a Press conference yesterday.
Rooslan believed smugglers had changed their tactics to avoid detection.