Illegal factory processing agarwood oil busted


Violated: A file pic showing a destroyed agarwood tree.

KOTA TINGGI: An illegal factory processing agarwood into oil, known locally as gaharu oil, has been busted in Kampung Panti here.

In a sting operation on Friday, enforcement officers from the Peninsular Malaysia Forestry Department found a large-scale operation underway with the capacity to produce millions of ringgit’s worth of oil.

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