MMEA busts two smugglers with 3,300 turtles | Malay Mail

MMEA busts two smugglers with 3,300 turtles

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency foiled an attempt to smuggle 3,300 protected turtles into the country near Tanjung Tohor in the waters off Batu Pahat here early today. — Picture courtesy of MMEA

The Batu Pahat maritime zone MMEA enforcement team intercepted the boat at 12.30am and found the carettochelys insculpta turtles packed in seven boxes. “The turtles were believed to be brought in to be sold in the country. The total seizure is estimated to be about RM150,000, including the boat seized,” he said in a statement here today.

Mohamad said the seizure and arrest was the result of cooperation between the agency’s Batu Pahat maritime zone and the police’s 6th Battalion general operations force at the Parit Unas Post.

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