Local Fined For Smuggling Chicken
By Malai FadleyRizal

Bandar Seri Begawan - A 26-year-old local was fined a total of $6,500 or six months and two weeks imprisonment in default for knowingly bringing contraband into the Sultanate.

Awang Azri Hj Tahir pleaded guilty before Senior Registrar Radin Safiee to a charge of conveying 53 plastic bags of chicken wings weighing a total of 551.9 kilos in a car registered as BR6635. He was fined $6,100 or six months’ jail in default for the charge.

Awang Azri also pleaded guilty to a charge of conveying 3 plastic bags of frozen meat weighing 33.5 kilos in the same car, for which he was fined $400 or two weeks’ jail in default.

ASC Hj Jamil Hj Tuah, a Customs prosecutor told the court that the defendant was arrested when Customs Preventive officers spotted his car at the Kg Salar industrial area three days. The officers found the contraband in the car and arrested him.

During investigations, officers heard that a man named Ramli had smuggled the items by boat from Limbang and sent them to Awang Azri at the place where he was arrested.

The defendant said he was about to send the contraband to a man named Ariffin at Pantai Tungku for $150.

The total amount of contraband seized was valued at $3169.45.

A hearing on an application for forfeiture of the car will be heard on October 30.   -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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