PUTRAJAYA: The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry (KPDNHEP) will not hesitate to investigate and review prices if many complaints rail against a premises or stall, says its minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi.
PUTRAJAYA, April 5 The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (KPDNHEP) will not hesitate to investigate and review prices if many complaints rail against a premises or stall, said its minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi. He said the investigation would involve a review in.
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) seized a local boat carrying various goods heading from here towards Pulau Sebatik.
Tawau Maritime Zone Director Maritime Captain Siva Kumar Vengadasalam said the boat skippered by a 46-year-old local man was stopped near Tawau River around 9.30pm.
He said preliminary investigation showed the boat was transporting goods that were not declared, adding such action is a violation of the Customs Act 1967
KOTA KINABALU: Police here believe that they have crippled a syndicate smuggling fuel to a neighbouring country with the arrest of seven people and the seizure of RM5.5mil worth of subsidised petrol in Semporna.
The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (KPDNHEP) here seized a total of 19,920kg of subsidised cooking oil during a raid in Jalan Lintas Sibuga on Saturday (March 19).
According to KPDNHEP Sandakan Branch Chief Azdy Zukkry John, a team of enforcement officers from the Sandakan office led by him conducted preliminary intelligence and discovered an activity involving the cutting of packets of cooking oil.
“They loaded the oil into a tanker truck after cutting the oil packets. Following that, we went on a store raid.
“During the raid, a total of 19,920kg of subsidised cooking oil were discovered in the store.
“Further investigations revealed that the supply was suspected to have been obtained from several subsidised cooking oil packaging factories in the district,” he told a press conference here, Monday.
Azdy said a 10-tonne Nissan lorry was also seized from a 38-year-old local who claimed to be the person in charge