{"id":85928,"date":"2020-08-03T10:36:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T02:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85928"},"modified":"2020-08-03T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T02:36:40","slug":"maf-foils-attempt-to-smuggle-600-magpies-into-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=85928","title":{"rendered":"MAF foils attempt to smuggle  600 magpies into Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) foiled an attempt to smuggle 600 magpies, estimated to be worth RM18,000 to RM24,000, into Indonesia\u00a0through &#8216;\u2019Ops Benteng&#8217;\u2019 in Kampung Punggai, Bandar Penawar, Johor Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0In a statement Sunday, the Third Malaysian Infantry Division Headquarters said that the Seventh Malaysian Infantry Brigade which was\u00a0responsible for supervising the area received a tip-off\u00a0from the public about a suspicious boat on the beach in Kampung Punggai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Quick Reaction Force team of the First&nbsp;Battalion of the Royal Ranger Regiment acted upon the information at about 10.15 pm and discovered&nbsp;60 crates containing 600 magpies about to be&nbsp;smuggled into Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The confiscated items were handed over to Perhilitan Johor (The Johor Wildlife and National Parks Department)\u00a0for further action and a report was lodged at the Bayu Damai police station,&#8221; according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement also said that the suspects fled upon realising the presence of security forces in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency is said to have also dispatched a boat to conduct a search in the waters, but the boat used by the smugglers has yet to be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 3 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) foiled an attempt to smuggle 600 magpies, estimated to be worth RM18,000 to RM24,000, into Indonesia\u00a0through &#8216;\u2019Ops Benteng&#8217;\u2019 in Kampung Punggai, Bandar Penawar, Johor Saturday night. \u00a0In a statement Sunday, the Third Malaysian Infantry Division Headquarters said that the Seventh Malaysian Infantry Brigade which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":85683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85928"}],"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=85928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}