SANDAKAN: A smuggling ring involving frozen food with dubious halal status worth RM2,722,604 was busted, Wednesday, by police and the Sabah Veterinary Services Department in Perindustrian Ringan BDC, here.
The seizure – reportedly the largest this year – occurred after a crackdown on a frozen food smuggling syndicate active in Sabah, according to Datuk Hishamudin Tahar, Deputy Director of the Bukit Aman Internal Security and Public Order Department.
Nine men, five of them locals, were examined during several raids. “The seizure involved a total of 9,782 boxes containing chicken wings, thighs and breasts believed from unrecognised plants that do not have halal certificates, namely China, Australia, Denmark, and Poland,” he said.
Further investigation would be conducted to determine whether documents have been falsified as well as the import/export processes, so that a similar situation may be avoided.