I hope you all remember this story I wrote on October 29, 2012 : Ismail Sabri Wake Up : RM1.0M A Day Lost In Diesel Smuggling
Some of you (maybe part of the corrupted people behind the smuggling rings) wrote and said how can RM1.0 million worth of diesel be smuggled out every day from Johor? Well just read this from The Star today :
- JOHOR BARU: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) managed to thwart an attempt by a Mongolian registered vessel to smuggle 200,000 litres of diesel worth RM3.6mil off Sungai Johor in Kota Tinggi here.
- MMEA received a tip-off that several suspicious tankers were transferring the diesel into the vessel at a jetty near Teluk Sengat
- “We managed to intercept the vessel off the waters of Teluk Sengat in Sungai Johor and found the smuggled diesel hidden in eight separate tanks.
- The vessel was believed to be on its way to a neighbouring country to sell the diesel.
- vessel's three crewmen and the captain, all Indonesian nationals were being detained
Neighbouring country? Now which country would that be? Poland? Transylvania? Lithuania? Here is a picture of the Mongolian registered vessel.
Well first of all Mongolia is a landlocked country. There are no seaports in Mongolia. But this vessel is registered in Mongolia. Cool.
Secondly 200,000 litres of diesel cannot be worth RM3.6 million. That works out to RM18.0 per litre. The Star must do better fact checking. Subsidised diesel is selling at RM1.80 per litre in Malaysia. That makes this boat load worth RM360,000 at subsidised prices.
In Singapore diesel sells for about RM4.00 per liter. That makes this boatload worth RM800,000 in Singapore. This is just one boat load. But folks surely this cannot be the only boatload being smuggled "to neighbouring countries" everyday.
Suspicious lorry tankers were transferring diesel to this boat in Teluk Sengat. Surely there must be a general manager, a logistics manager, a paymaster, cashier, bank account holders, money transfer guys, the shipping agents, ship owners, the shipping forwarders, suppliers of the smuggled diesel etc who must all be involved before they can load up 200,000 litres of diesel on a ship at a jetty in Teluk Sengat?
Katakanlah everyday there are FIVE boatloads leaving Johor, that is easily 1.0 million LITRES of diesel. That is worth RM4.0 million in Singapore already - per day.
I wrote about this on October 29th, 2012. Today is 30th December 2012 - two months have passed before we read of this ship being detained.
So how many boatloads of diesel have been smuggled out from Johor since October? Even if just ONE boat load a day x 200k litres x 60 days x RM4.00 per litre = RM48.0 Million in two months.
If there are THREE boatloads a day, that adds up to RM144.0 Million in two months. If there are FIVE boatloads a day being smuggled out, that is RM240.0 Million in two months. That is a lot of money. A lot of payoffs.
Diesel smuggling in Johor is rampant. It has become an industry. Everyone from top to bottom must be involved (and be paid off) if this scale of smuggling can still go on.
I am surprised that it is the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency that made this seizure. Where is the Jabatan Kastam? Where is Ismail Sabri? Hang yang jadi Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri.
Syabas to the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency. Hopefully they will wrap up this diesel smuggling business.
13 comments:
Good job ! Hopefully you do tell our MSM that they are duty bound to expose such scam.We the poor rakyat to have extra RM100 in the pocket is a luxury.Why and how it can happen ?Feel cheated by our present leaders.
Syed. They cannot smuggle the diesel out unless the police and custom close their eyes.
The syendcate is not headed by a jinn or Hantu Raya by local Chinese mafia.They have all the runner who buy all the diesel from the pump station at $1.9o rgt perl liter and sell o the syendicate at $2.10 a litter.
You estimate are vay consevative.I think more than one million rgt of diesel they smuggle every day.
by the way, who is at the loosing side. what i learned from the school of smuggling, these activities in fact generating hard cash to the country. from the economic point of view these activities are creating new wealth to our economy. These people cannot export sand since it is a monopoly business so they go for diesel instead. By the way these are pariah grade diesel selling at premium grade price in the country. The singaporean buyers are the fools if they willing to pay RM4 per liter for this pariah grade diesel. Wahhh bukan senang mau tipu singapore
I took two pictures recently when a man was pumping diesel to the tank inside the big van when I was refuelling my car at Taman Sri Skudai Petronas station. But I don't know how to report those suspious incident.
Ayob
Police, customs, politicians and everyone else is involved. Most likely this vessel was the sacrificial lamb to show the customs and maritime guys are doing some work and for generating publicity.
Pak Syed , you would be surprised that this petty smuggle is nothing compared to the systematic and organized smuggling of diesel within the Oil & Gas support industry .
Millions of ringgits of worth of diesel is being smuggled daily by the operators of offshore support services vessels ( Anchor Handling , Tug & Supply ( AHTS ) , general utility tugs & supply vessels ) within the oilfields by the Eastcoast and Borneo waters .
These diesel is supplied by the charterer ( i.e. Petronas ) for the consumption of the ships as well as to be supplied to the oil rigs .
False declaration is made over the daily consumption and the excess oil is being smuggled to Singapore and Thailand .
The vessels buying them are registered in Thailand and trade currency is in Singapore dollars .
Diesel is being smuggled by the tons by hundreds of offshore support vessels every day !
digit,
i agree with you. i think this indon captain asked for extra money to transport the goods or something like that. so they fixed him and called the maritim. if not it is business as usual
This is how the UMNO rob the people. They get fat profit and rakyat suffer the consequence. We must vote out the current gov otherwise our country is doomed.
Bro after BN win the elections and Najib is fully entrenched as PM you have to join in to root out these corrupt people in the civil service, local councils, enforcement, and other corruption involving others government agencies, including Khazanah, that are making our country getting sicker, and sicker every day!
Lori can catch, ship also can catch, how come depot cannot catch? Or is depot 'protected' meh? Is it really the government or the Johor royals to blame?
anon 3;23. Please don't speculate. Its not good. But out of curiosity why don't you try to get involve in this diesel smuggling business yourself. But I personally guaranteed that by night time you will have nasi putih and kangkong for your dinner, courtesy of government of malaysia. If you are adventurous type , try to get involve in sand smuggling business instead of diesel. I can assure you that you are within minutes to entitle free kangkong. good luck if you think you are smarter than police or custom officials
Ternampak tulisan 'Diesel Habis' di kaunter petronas JB. Kalau tengok cara notis dibuat mcm selalu aje diesel habis. Kemana pergi diesel subsidi kita. Penyeludup ini yg patut dipenjara bukan denda sahaja.
This is like in the movie, specifically Batman.
How can Batman built his bat cave, bat mobile, bat jet, bat suit, bat gadget, bat computer, bat motorcycle, bat phone, bat gun and bat everything and no body know who Batman is.
In any right mind, Batman could not built his vast armory, gadgets, vehicles and secret lair on his own, even with the help of old Alfred. I don't think Batman does all the brick laying for his bat cave, he got better things to do.
Truly a mystery that no body will even bother to look into or even care.
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