Probe seafood deals at Tawau airport
Published on: Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Tawau: Kalabakan MP Datuk Seri Abdul Ghapur Salleh urged the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency (MACC) to probe the seafood transaction activity going on at Tawau Airport. He said he had information that seafood are brought in from a neighbouring country to be exported from the state and this needs to be investigated on whether there are violation of laws made if the activities are carried out arbitrarily. "If it is true that the seafood is brought in from the neighbouring country, we want to know whether it has approval from the authorities or was smuggled.
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"If it was smuggled, we want to know how it could happen when our waters are strictly controlled by authorities and whether are there any corruption elements involved?" he said in a statement.He was informed that delivery of seafood through Tawau Airport was prohibited but was still being carried out.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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