SEBERANG PERAI, Oct. 28 -- Police have arrested six individuals and seized various e-waste components and equipment worth RM22.35 million during a raid at a factory in Jalan Bukit Tambun in Juru yesterday.

Northern Brigade General Operations Force Commander SAC Shahrum Hashim said the Intelligence Branch of the 2nd Battalion General Operations Force (PGA) conducted surveillance of the site over the past few days before raiding the factory from 9am to 6pm under Op Hazard.

"Based on inspection of the factory, we found five forklifts, a waste filtration machine, 10 waste washing machines, an extruder machine, a compressor, and 250 jumbo bags of e-waste weighing an estimated 250,000 kilograms (kg)," he said in a statement today.

He added t...