GOF seizes RM5.35mil illegal e-waste, arrests three men in Kedah

SUNGAI PETANI: Three local men were arrested while vehicles, electronic components (E-waste), scrap metal and plastic, all estimated to be worth RM5.35 million, were seized during Op Hazard in Bukit Selambau near here yesterday.

General Operations Force (GOF) Northern Brigade Commander Senior Assistant Commissioner Shahrum Hashim said the operation was conducted following monitoring of illegal E-waste activities in the area over the past week.

“Three Volvo trailer lorries transporting various types of E-waste were detected en route to a warehouse. Upon inspection at the rear of the lorries, officers found 60 jumbo bags of E-waste, 20 jumbo bags of scrap metal, 19 jumbo bags of plastic waste and 2 metal crushers, all weighing about 99,000 kilogrammes,” he said in a statement today.

He said the operation, conducted between 1am and 6.45am yesterday, also involved the GOF 18th Battalion Investigation Branch, the Sungai Petani Department of Environment (DOE), the Traffic Enforcement and Investigation Division and the Narcotics Criminal Investigation Division of the Kuala Muda police headquarters.

The three men who were arrested, aged between 36 and 52, and the seizures were handed over to the DOE for investigation under Section 18 (1A) of the Environmental Quality Act 1974, he added.– BERNAMA

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