MELAKA: Five men were arrested with 26,000 litres of subsidised diesel, believed to have been misappropriated, in a raid on a warehouse in the Bukit Rambai Industrial Park here last night.
State Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry director Norena Jaafar today said the seizure included several tanks of diesel, two lorry tankers and RM400,000 in cash.
"There were five workers, including a Bangladeshi man, aged between 25 and 60, in the warehouse, with a lorry tanker filled with diesel ready to leave the scene."
Norena said the modus operandi of the syndicate was to buy the subsidised diesel at the maximum level of RM500 in each station to avoid being detected, and resell it on the black market, especially to industries, at RM3.20 per litre.
Meanwhile, in Negri Sembilan, 27,300 litres of diesel, two lorry tankers and fuel-transfer tools, worth RM138,695, were seized in a similar raid in Kampung Chuah, Port Dickson last night.
State Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry director Muhammad Zahir Mazlan said the first lorry tanker had 16,380 litres of diesel, while the second one had 10,920 litres.
A local man, in his 30s, was arrested, he said. --Bernama
