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Cheong said the smuggled cigarettes were believed to be for the local market and probably other districts.

Police arrested a Myanmar man and seized 110 cartons of contraband cigarettes worth RM14,500 at a shop in Kamunting town, Bandar Kamunting, last night.

Police said the man was arrested for his alleged involvement in the smuggling of the cigarettes in an operation yesterday.

Ayob Khan said the contraband cigarettes are worth RM7.66 million while the whole seizure is valued at RM9.32 million.

Rizal said the suspects, aged 38 and 59, were nabbed at the Spring Crest Industrial Park in Batu Caves around 1pm.

Sazali said the inspection found 257,400 stubs of contraband cigarettes worth RM61,776 hidden in 12 barrels of fresh fish in the lorry.

Abd Rahim said the police had noticed that the ship had been sailing back and forth from Batam, Indonesia, to the Johor west coast since last month.

Police smashed a syndicate distributing and selling smuggled cigarettes, with the seizure of 1.42 million sticks of cigarettes worth over RM1 million.

Police seized 41,800 cartons of smuggled cigarettes and two lorries, all worth about RM6.66 million inclusive of duties, in two raids yesterday.

The Royal Malaysian Customs Department has foiled an attempt to smuggle in 6.46 million sticks of white cigarettes worth more than RM500,000, with unpaid duties of RM4.3 million, at Port Klang.

Asri Janggut gave his statement over the alleged illegal gambling activities and the sale of contraband cigarettes during the questioning.

Bukit Aman Internal Security and Public Order Department director Datuk Seri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said that all the suspects detained are between 21 and 49 years old.

GOF Central Brigade Commander SAC Muhammad Abdul Halim said two local men, aged 35 and 49, were arrested in connection with the seizure of the U2 brand cigarettes.

In its efforts to smoke out rampant smuggling of contraband cigarettes, the Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) has developed several new strategies for implementation next year.

ICA had detected two attempts to smuggle more than 3,750 cartons of contraband cigarettes into Singapore through the land checkpoints over the past four days.

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