Contraband smokes worth RM4.5mil seized in Customs ops at KLIA, Port Klang

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Contraband smokes worth RM4.5mil seized in Customs ops at KLIA, Port Klang
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Norlela and her team with some of the seized contraband at the press conference on Nov 13. – BERNAMApic

Customs Central Zone assistant director-general Norlela Ismail said three of the operations took place in the Free Commercial Zone at Kuala Lumpur International Airport , while the other two operations were conducted at West Port and a warehouse in Selat Klang Utama, Port Klang, Selangor. Norlela said the operation in West Port on Sept 27, involving a container, resulted in the seizure of 4.16 million cigarettes, believed to be intended for import into the country. Additionally, 960,000 cigarettes were seized from a warehouse on Oct 16."The seized cigarettes were believed to have been stored temporarily at the warehouse before being sent to various locations across Peninsular Malaysia using a lorry transport company," she told a press conference here on Wednesday .

"The modus operandi involved declaring the items on the invoices as chopping boards, cardboard boxes, shopping bags and textiles, and using cargo delivery services for shipment.

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