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Jakarta (ANTARA) - Patrol Customs and Excise Tanjung Balai Karimun, Thursday morning managed to thwart the smuggling of 5,000 stem logs to Singapore.

Customs and Excise Public Relations Evy Suhartantyo in his statement here on Thursday said the incident began with the arrest of the ship KM Main expectancy at 04.00 pm in the waters Takong-Singapore Straits,

"The ship caught Patrol BC 15 020 KM Main Hope," he said. Based on the recognition while the skipper, Razak Ismail, the vessel is approximately 5000 charge of child mentangor sticks.

He explained KM Main Hope comes from Belinga with the aim of Singapore, and the crew of five persons, regardless of the manifest.

To that end, the boats and documents, the skipper and the crew are now being drawn back into the Regional Office of Customs and Excise Tanjung Balai Karimun with alleged illegal logging.

The modus operandi of the smuggling is for the wood obtained from illegal loggers, and then collected by collectors. Furthermore, after successfully collected in large numbers, the new timber is smuggled into the LN.

At the time of arrest, continued Evy, the ship was leaning toward entered Singapore waters and was determined not to quit, but due to the attentiveness of the patrol team could be forced to stop and attempt to master the ship.

"The assets and losses to the state due to these events is estimated at approximately Rp750 million," said Evy.