The Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry will deploy its enforcement officers at seven national border checkpoints in four states, namely Perlis, Kedah, Perak, and Kelantan, to combat leakage and smuggling of controlled and subsidised goods into neighbouring countries.

Its minister Armizan Mohd Ali said the deployment of ministry enforcement officers will go on until the establishment of the Single Border Agency and this is also in line with the government’s move to re-target subsidies this year.