SANDAKAN: The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (KPDNHEP) here seized a total of 19,920kg of subsidised cooking oil during a raid in Jalan Lintas Sibuga on Saturday (March 19).According to KPDNHEP Sandakan Branch Chief Azdy Zukkry John, a team of enforcement officers from the Sandakan office led by him conducted preliminary intelligence and discovered an activity involving the cutting of packets of cooking oil.
“They loaded the oil into a tanker truck after cutting the oil packets. Following that, we went on a store raid.
“During the raid, a total of 19,920kg of subsidised cooking oil were discovered in the store.
“Further investigations revealed that the supply was suspected to have been obtained from several subsidised cooking oil packaging factories in the district,” he told a press conference here, Monday.
Azdy said a 10-tonne Nissan lorry was also seized from a 38-year-old local who claimed to be the person in charge of the store items.
He said all confiscated items were taken to the KPDNHEP Sandakan exhibit store for safekeeping.
“The total estimated value of the seizure, including the lorry, is RM106,322.50.
“The case is being investigated under the Control of Supply Act 1961 due to the store owner’s offence of possessing controlled items in a situation that raised reasonable suspicions, in addition to failing to maintain the cooking oil stock book.
“For the record, from January 1, 2021 to March 20, 2022, KPDNHEP Sandakan conducted 1,322 inspections on premises and detected 23 cases involving a total seizure of RM838,204.10 for various offences under the Act,” said.
Azdy also said a total of 23 public complaints were received and resolved during the same time period.
