PORT KLANG, Oct 15 – The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) seized luxury vehicles, alcoholic beverages, scrap metal, e-waste and several other commodities worth RM30.4 million in raids at Port Klang between August and Oct 4.
JKDM director-general Datuk Anis Rizana Mohd Zainudin said the seizures by Selangor customs included six imported luxury vehicles worth RM794,000, found in five containers at West and North Ports on Aug 22.
Preliminary investigations revealed all the vehicles, believed to have originated from East Asia, arrived at the port on July 17 without the required import permits from the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI), she told a press conference Monday.
In the case of the alcoholic beverages, Anis Rizana said an inspection of five containers at North and West Ports on Sept 26 led to the seizure of 79,104 litres of alcohol worth RM3.11 million, believed imported from East Asia and falsely declared as truck steel rims and photo albums.
She added that JKDM also seized about 1,098 tonnes of scrap metal valued at RM13.2 million, after confiscating 44 containers which originated from a country in the Americas at West Port on Sept 5.
