Pahang deputy police chief Datuk Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri said that acting on a tip-off, a team from Bukit Aman’s Special Operations Command stopped a five-tonne lorry and detained the 43-year-old driver at 4.20am on Saturday .
He said shortly after that, a man drove up in a car and introduced himself as the lorry driver’s friend."The men, both locals, were arrested. Initial investigations revealed that the lorry driver was paid RM1,500 to transport the smuggled cigarettes to Kuala Lumpur. "The suspects claimed to have picked up the lorry in Kemaman, Terengganu, where it was left at a row of shophouses with the keys placed on one of the tyres.
"We are now in the process of identifying the lorry owner,” he told a press conference at district police headquarters here on Monday .Mohd Yusri said both suspects, who have been remanded for four days from Saturday, were first offenders and a urine test conducted on both returned negative. – Bernama
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