MACC raids logging firms believed involved in shady deals


KOTA KINABALU: Graft-busters have begun moving against Sabah’s powerful timber cartels, conducting simultaneous raids on three logging companies in Sandakan and Tawau. The Sabah Forestry Department headquarters was also raided.

Sources said a team of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigators went to the department in Sandakan yesterday morning, spending several hours searching for important documents.

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