PASIR MAS: It was an ingenious plan to siphon petrol from Malaysia to Thailand – with the use of a rubber hose across the bed of a boundary river – to transfer the fuel.
But the authorities got a “whiff” of the strategy and immediately put a stop to it.
Commanding Officer of the 9th Battalion General Operations Force (PGA9) Supt Nor Azizan Yusof said this latest modus operandi to smuggle fuel out of the country was detected by GOF personnel on patrol at an illegal jetty at the Malaysian-Thai border on Wednesday.
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