InfoSawIT, MEDAN – Teluk Nibung Customs, North Sumatera Province successfully thwarted horseshoe crab and palm oil sprout smuggling at Teluk Nibung Port, Wednesday (10/07).

Head of Teluk Nibung Customs, Nurhasan Ashari said that his side got the information from the intelligent. “Our team did check the temporary storage and found one kilogram of 156 horseshoe crabs and two collies of 171 palm oil sprouts,” Nurhasan said, Nurhasan as InfoSAWIT quoted from Antara. The horseshoe crab has been taken for advantages for consumptioin and biomedical and environment studies. The blood plasma extract could be used to diagnose meningitis and gonorrhea studies in some countries.

Horseshoe crab is categorized as the protected animal in the regulation of Minister of Environment and Forestry. While palm oil sprout breaks the regulation about customs because there were no available documents found. The perpetuator would smuggle the sprouts by saying that they were fishery products.

Nurhasan continued the smuggling modus was through the ship that contained of export commodities in Teluk Nibung Port. “Every evidence has been secured at the office of Teluk Nibung Customs to get data and would be handed over to the related instances,” he said.

Palm oil sprout would be for Animal, Fishery and Plants Agency, Tanjung Balai, Regency of Asaha, while horseshoe crab would be handed over to Ministry of Environment and Forestry North Sumatera. What the Customs did would be about to conserve the protected animals and prevent the violation in customs. (T2)