KUCHING: Sarawak Customs Department has thwarted an attempt to smuggle out 42 units of imported luxury vehicles worth RM10.2 million, including in unpaid tax, in a raid yesterday. State Customs director Datuk Sharifah Halimah Tuanku Taha said the enforcement team stormed a PEKEMA-licensed warehouse at 11.30am following a tip-off on smuggling activity at the premises. Following checks on the vehicles at the warehouse, the owner failed to produce documents to verify that tax has been paid on the vehicles," he said in a statement today. Sharifah Halimah said the modus operandi of the company was to keep or hide the vehicles for a certain period before smuggling them out. She said a man has been detained to facilitate investigation under Section 75 of the Customs Act 967 for removal of dutiable goods from a warehouse.

Source: New Strait Times January 04, 2020 09:33 UTC