Seng Seng Kok
JOHOR BAHARU: The Sessions Court here yesterday fined a food supplying company RM8,000 for attempting to export corn flour without a valid permit from the Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Service Department (Maqis) in March this year.
Judge Elesabet Payawan handed down the fine after finding the company, Dommal Food Services Sdn Bhd, guilty of committing the offence.
Dommal Food Services Sdn Bhd general manager Seng Seng Kok, 50, appeared on behalf of the company which was represented by lawyer Chow Yee Wan.
The company was charged with attempting export 1,000kg of the Semolina corn flour with a valid permit from Maqis at about 2 am on March 17 this year at the Sultan Abu Bakar Complex, Tanjung Kupang near Gelang Patah.
It was discovered when Maqis officers inspected a lorry belonging to the company at the export inspection lane and found 40 bags of the corn flour, worth RM1,900, to be brought into Singapore without a valid permit.
Sample of the item was sent for analysis and found to contain corn DNA, hence confirming the item is an agricultural produce.
The company was charged under Section 11(2) of the Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Services Act 2011 which stated that no person shall export any plant, animal, carcass, fish, agricultural produce, soil or micro-organism without a permit.
The offence carries a maximum fine of RM100,000 or six years’ jail, or both, if found guilty. — Bernama