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JOHOR BARU: Four people, including the director of a frozen meat import company, have been in custody for four days in connection with a meat cartel scandal here.
The director of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Datuk Azmi Alias, said that the people are the director of the company, the director of operations and one of its employees, as well as the director of a wholesale company.
He said the MACC is investigating the case under Section 17 (b) of the 2009 MACC Act, which carries a fine of five times the amount of the bribe or RM 10,000 or whichever is greater, and a prison sentence of no more than 20 years. out of conviction.
Registry assistant Nur Izzaty Muhammad Zahari allowed the four suspects, aged between 39 and 50, including a woman, to be sent to pretrial detention starting Monday (January 4) to facilitate the MACC investigation.
Recently, authorities arrested a cartel that had been smuggling meat from Ukraine, Brazil, Argentina and China, and repackaging it with a halal logo.
A raid was carried out on a warehouse in Senai, Johor, where 1,500 tonnes of frozen meat worth RM30,000 were seized.
The cartel, which is believed to have been operating for a few years, had allegedly been using the warehouse as a place to make fake labels and stamps to stick on packages of meat that were not certified halal.
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