TUMPAT: Kelantan Customs Department today foiled an attempt to smuggle 4,000kg of wild boar carcasses, worth RM44,000, to Thailand.
The wild boar carcasses, hidden in two boats, were seized in two separate operations here, said the department's director Mohd Rakbi Mat Saud.
He said a man and a Thai national, both in their 50s, were detained in the operations.
"In the first operation at Mentua illegal jetty, our officers seized 2,800kg of the wild boar carcasses from a boat there.
"A man was arrested in the 2.40am operation," he told a press conference in Pengkalan Kubor today.
He said the rest of the carcasses were seized in a second operation at Pengkalan Haji Rashid about 7.30am which saw the arrest of the second man.
"Initial investigations showed the carcasses were brought to Kelantan from Terengganu and will be smuggled to Thailand via the illegal jetties.
"There are high demand for the carcasses in the neighbouring country." he said.