KLANG: The Royal Malaysian Customs Department has seized luxury cars, drugs, liquor, liquid nicotine and television sets worth RM6.37mil in separate raids.
Its Central Zone II (Selangor) assistant director-general Norlela Ismail said the raids in Westport and Northport, as well as at the KL International Airport (KLIA) under Op Longkai 2024, were conducted in July and August.
The first case saw 11 units of imported vehicles of various makes worth RM3.69mil seized following raids on vehicle storage warehouses in Northport and Westport.
She said preliminary investigations revealed that the vehicles were believed to have been imported from European and Asian countries.
Norlela added that the vehicles had been stored for four years, while the warehouse and the importer had failed to submit an import permit from the Investment, Trade and Industry Ministry.
“Imported vehicles are prohibited items whereby their importation is permitted on the condition that they have an import licence from the Investment, Trade and Industry Ministry under Item 3, Part I, Second Schedule, Customs Order (Prohibition on Import) 2023,” Norlela said here yesterday, Bernama reported.
On a separate case, Norlela said four packages suspected to contain cannabis-type drugs had been seized at the KLIA Mail and Courier Centre.
The items weighing 1,767g and worth RM13,955 were declared as “Chinese tea”, “Thai tea”, “premium Thai tea” and “souvenir” to avoid detection.
“Drugs believed to be cannabis were found when checks were conducted on the four courier packages. The merchandise was seized and brought back to the North Port Customs Office for further investigation,” she said.
She added that the case is being investigated under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, which provides for the death penalty or life imprisonment and a minimum of 12 lashes in the event the death sentence is not imposed.
