KUANTAN, April 21 – The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living (KPDN) apprehended a man with a modified lorry for misappropriating subsidised diesel at a mine in Muadzam Shah, Rompin, during its Op Tiris 3.0 on Wednesday.
Pahang state director, Jezlily Jamaluddin, said the 45-year-old man was arrested while transferring diesel from the lorry into a skid tank at the mine.
He added that the arrest was following tip-offs that the lorry had filled diesel four times at three petrol stations in Pekan.
“The man was found using a modified lorry with an approximately 3,000-litre capacity,” he said during a media briefing.
The confiscated items included 2,400 litres of diesel in the additional tank of the modified lorry, 224 litres of diesel in the skid tank, and a three-ton modified lorry, all estimated at more than RM75,000, he said.
He said that during the Op Tiris 3.0 from Jan 1 to April 17, KPDN Pahang recorded 25 cases related to the misappropriation of subsidised controlled goods, with a total seizure exceeding RM806,000.
