Million$ lost in timber fiasco: Sam

Kota Kinabalu: Sabah lost no less than RM10 million in revenue from timber due to the previous State Government erroneously declaring that illegal logging was going on in a massive scale and seized 40,000 logs for alleged illegal felling and log extraction nearly two and a half years ago.

Former State Chief Conservator of Forests Datuk Sam Mannan (pic) said what is clear now is that there is nothing to show to prove the allegations, whose seizures were perhaps a world record, but most certainly a Sabah record.

 

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