Some of the logs seized from Nanga Pedai.
KANOWIT: The One-Stop Compliance Centre (OSCC) established by Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) at Mapai near here was supposed to become operational yesterday.
But success came early for OSCC Mapai when a team of SFC enforcement officers came across an illegal logging
operation at Nanga Pedai yesterday while on a trial compliance patrol.
“The illegal logging operation was being carried out at a closed logging coupe within a previous timber licence area where the licence had expired.
“317 logs of various species and sizes were seized. The logs had been tagged with bogus identification marks,” said a press statement issued by SFC yesterday.
According to SFC, a police report had been lodged at Kanowit Police Station and the case would be handed over to the Forest Department for investigation.