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PETALING JAYA : A manager of a palm oil refinery and 10 other people were arrested by police on Monday for investigations into the dumping of tons of pollutants in Sungai Kundang last week.
Selangor Police Chief SAC Datuk Fadzil Ahmat said that the factory located in the Kundang Jaya Industrial Park near Rawang was raided by the Gombak CID at 3 pm Monday, where the 66-year-old manager was being detained.
He said police also arrested two local men aged 36 and 46 and eight refinery workers, all in Myanmar aged 27 to 39.
Fadzil said police also confiscated several documents and equipment that were suspected of having been used to dump the pollutants.
He said the men were in pretrial detention yesterday (Tuesday) for seven days to assist in the investigations of the case.
The licensed refinery is known to have been in operation in the area for nearly two decades.
Air Selangor had submitted a police report on the discovery of the contamination at Sungai Kundang last week.
On October 19, a 62-year-old company director, his 31-year-old son, and six of his workers were arrested by the police in connection with the planned dumping of waste in Sungai Gong, Rawang, resulting in a major shutdown of Water. the Klang Valley which affected more than 1.2 million households a day earlier.
Police had said that the odor from the effluents found at the Sungai Selangor water treatment plants dated back to Sungai Gong and is suspected of coming from a company engaged in construction machinery.
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