Govt to auction illegal sugar

PEKANBARU, Riau: The Riau provincial government is planning to auction a total of 5,700 tons of sugar from Malaysia, which was recently confiscated by Riau security personnel from several ships.

The auction had to be held immediately due to a sugar shortage, said Raja Bambang Mit, the secretary to the Riau provincial government.

The 5,700 tons of sugar was confiscated from several ships dispatching sugar from Port Klang in Malaysia to Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province. The ships were nabbed for carrying sugar without the necessary documents. -- JP