{"id":38116,"date":"2019-08-19T13:48:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T05:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=38116"},"modified":"2019-08-19T13:48:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T05:48:24","slug":"nine-filipinos-held-while-attempting-to-sneak-in-at-semporna-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=38116","title":{"rendered":"Nine Filipinos held while attempting to sneak in at Semporna waters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SEMPORNA, Aug 19 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Marine police here detained nine individuals from Sitangkai, Philippines for attempting to enter the country illegally via the waters of Pulau Sisipan near here Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabah Region 4 marine police commander ACP Mohamad Pajeri Ali said the action was based on information acquired by the Marine Intelligence Unit (URM) that an orange boat operated by a man from Palau will be bringing in eight passengers comprising six men and two women from Philippines at 7 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose nabbed were aged between 16 and 65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInitial investigations found the eight passengers were entering the country for the first time after paying 3,000 Pesos (RM70) each to the skipper,\u201d he said in a statement here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohamad Pajeri said marine police also seized the boat, an engine pump and the belongings of passengers including 1,570 Pesos (RM207.20) in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe seizures were made under Section 26A of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007 (ATIPSOM) for carrying activities of smuggling migrants which provides for a jail term not exceeding 15 years or fine or both if found guilty,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said marine police are committed to eradicate human smuggling activities in Sabah waters while ensuring the security of the maritime community as well as the enforcement of other laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEMPORNA, Aug 19 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Marine police here detained nine individuals from Sitangkai, Philippines for attempting to enter the country illegally via the waters of Pulau Sisipan near here Sunday. Sabah Region 4 marine police commander ACP Mohamad Pajeri Ali said the action was based on information acquired by the Marine Intelligence Unit (URM) that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":19417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}