“Five electronic weighing machines of small measurements, 45 rolling papers, 26 filters - all of high quality, three small hookahs, jewellery worth Rs 4 lakh (approx) were seized”, she added. A massive search operation was launched on Friday.ĭuring the search operation the police, among other things, seized cash worth Rs 8.2 lakh, 270 gm charas. Police party led by Shalini Agnihotri, Superintendent of Police, Kullu, conducted the raid. The police had prior information that the accused was operating illegal business of illicit contraband since long. Eight buyers were also apprehended during the raid. “We are carrying out investigations related to other individuals who may be involved in the case,” he said adding that the man would be remanded for seven days beginning Saturday and the case investigated under Section 135(1)(d) of the Customs Act 1967.In a surprise raid carried out on the house of Ved Ram Vedi at Dhalpur in Kullu district, Kullu police seized illicit contraband, jewellery and Indian currency worth about Rs 8 lakhs. Raiz Mukhliz added that preliminary investigations revealed that the man did not have a permanent job and began to engage in the sale of contraband cigarettes last year and had no previous records related to crime or drugs. “The modus operandi is to use a rented house as a collection centre before the cigarettes are distributed to customers who we believe are foreign workers and also locals,” he told reporters at the Muar IPD, here today. The duty and tax not paid cigarettes seized on Friday, is the biggest seizure for the year.
“At the time of the raid, the man was arranging the cigarettes in the house that he had rented and it is believed the cigarettes were to be marketed around the area. He said following the raid, police seized 118 large packages of various brands of cigarettes comprising 4,000 cartons, a Proton Wira car, two mobile phones and RM1,699 cash.
Muar district police chief ACP Raiz Mukhliz Azman Aziz said acting on intelligence and surveillance carried out by the Simpang Renggam General Operations Force (GOF) 5th Battalion and the Muar district police headquarters (IPD) for four weeks, a 54 year-old man was arrested at 2.30 pm. MUAR: Police arrested a local man and seized 1.2 million sticks of white and clove cigarettes worth RM1.24 million and believed to have been smuggled, during a raid at a house in Jalan Naib Kadir, Bukit Pasir, here last Friday.
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