{"id":85881,"date":"2015-07-28T12:37:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T04:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=85881"},"modified":"2015-07-28T12:37:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T04:37:40","slug":"when-syndicates-hold-sway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=85881","title":{"rendered":"When syndicates hold sway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A RAID is only as good as the level of secrecy maintained. When, after much preparation and a six-hour trek to the site, it is found abandoned, the inference is too obvious to ignore. Somewhere along the line there is an informer working for the \u0153enemy\u009d. This was exactly what happened less than a week ago when the Terengganu Forestry Department, with the help of the police and the General Operations Force (GOF), attempted to raid an illegal logging syndicate to stop them. An operation that began at 2am arrived at the target location at the Pelagat Forest Reserve near Jertih in Besut some six hours later and found it deserted except for an abandoned excavator, a bulldozer and felled hardwood logs valued at RM500,000. The authorities found, too, an abandoned bungalow in the area. The logs were trees from the forest reserve \u201d identified from its size \u201d and the buffer zone of Sungai Pelagat.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1IEqj84\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A RAID is only as good as the level of secrecy maintained. When, after much preparation and a six-hour trek to the site, it is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85882,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85881\/revisions\/85882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}