KEPALA BATAS: A total of 18.49 million sticks of contraband cigarettes were seized after police raided a storeroom and warehouse in Taman Selamat at Tasek Gelugor here.
Four trucks, three of them chiller trucks, as well as two cars were also seized when police arrested five suspects on Wednesday.
Bukit Aman Crime Prevention and Community Safety Department director Datuk Zainal Abidin Kasim said the cigarettes were valued at RM13.86mil, while the vehicles at RM300,000.
He said as the trucks were registered with a fresh produce company, they had valid documents to pass roadblocks and managed to dodge inspections.
“Following months of surveillance on the properties, police launched the raid and arrested the suspects aged between 36 and 63.
KEPALA BATAS: Police here have arrested 19 suspects allegedly involved in illegal gambling in the district in an operation code-named Ops Dadu”, says North Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Noorzainy Mohd Noor.
He said the 12 men and seven women, aged between 22 and 48, were arrested at 12 different premises raided by Bukit Aman and the North Seberang Prai D7 police team in the Butterworth and Mak Mandin areas on April 11. Those arrested were believed to have been working at these sites as bookies and caretakers, ” said ACP Noorzainy, adding that these premises had been raided several times in the past two years.
He added in a statement on Monday (April 19) that the police officers conducting the raids found the premises appeared to house legal businesses such as phone shops and coffee shops but were also openly running illegal lottery operations.
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