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Illicit Trade Still Rampant Despite MCO

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KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 8, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Retail and Trade Brand Advocacy (RTBA), a non-governmental organisation that safeguards businesses from criminal conduct, says the travel restrictions, movement control order (MCO) and tighter scrutiny by enforcement agencies at border checkpoints and expressways have done nothing to disrupt the...

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