News in brief: June 22

TERENGGANU TO INTENSIFY EFFORTS TO GET MORE PwD REGISTERED

KUALA TERENGGANU --  The state government, through the Terengganu Social Welfare Department, will intensify the registration of persons with disabilities (PwD) so that the proper assistance can be channelled to them.

State Welfare, Women and Family Development and National Unity Committee chairman Hanafiah Mat said there are 30,324 registered PwDs in Terengganu.

“The effort to register PwD shows the government's concern so that the aid and special facilities for them can be fully enjoyed,” he told reporters after a dialogue session with Terengganu PwDs here today.

 Hanafiah also hoped that the guardians and families of those who have not yet registered to  immediately do so at the nearest District Social Welfare Office.

 -- BERNAMA

KPDNHEP FOILS ATTEMPT TO MISAPPROPRIATE SUBSIDISED DIESEL IN SEREMBAN

SEREMBAN -- The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (KPDNHEP) cracked down on the misappropriation of 4,500 litres of subsidised diesel worth RM32,675 in a raid at an illegal store in Kampung Tan Sri Mohd Said, Jalan Labu, today.

Negeri Sembilan KPDNHEP chief enforcement officer Abd Muis Samsudin said in the raid at 1.45 pm, the ministry also seized a modified one-tonne lorry, square tanks and equipment used to transfer diesel.

“During the raid, a suspicious-looking tanker truck covered in canvas transferred subsidised diesel from the vehicle’s cargo section by using a hose into a square tank as a storage place.

“Further checks, officers found two modified tanks on the lorry, while five tanks filled with diesel at the store. Initial checks found that the premises did not have a license or special permit to handle the controlled goods,” he said in a statement today.

He added that a local man in his 30s was arrested to assist in the investigation.

-- BERNAMA 

FIVE HELD FOR STEALING OLD CARS FOR SCRAP METAL

KUALA LUMPUR -- Five individuals, including a woman, were arrested in two separate raids last Sunday on suspicion of stealing old cars to be sold as scrap metals.

 Ampang Jaya police chief ACP Mohamad Farouk Eshak said police also found two cars that were reported missing in Bandar Baru Ampang last Saturday.

 "On June 18, at about 8 am, a 54-year-old van driver suspected that his Mitsubishi Tredia and Mitsubishi Galant parked on Bandar Baru Ampang road shoulder had been stolen.

“The next day, police arrested a 42-year-old man in Ampang, who then led the police to a premises selling scrap metal and found a lorry and the two missing vehicles," he said in a statement today.

The police team then arrested four more suspects, aged between 20 and 40, in Jinjang, Wangsa Maju and Ampang.

-- BERNAMA