Police probe loss of 700,000 condoms
By Shannon Teoh
A sex worker holds a bag of condoms during International Whores Day in Sydney, June 2, 2009. — Reuters pic
“We take the matter of the missing condoms very seriously... we are investigating the matter,” a Malaysian police spokesman said, according to an AFP report.
Sagami Rubber Industries, Japan’s first condom maker, said last week that the shipment of about 726,000 condoms was loaded into a container at its Perak factory, which subsequently arrived locked but empty in Tokyo.
“We are unhappy over the incident. This is the first time such a thing has happened since our Malaysian production started in 1997,” Sato Koji, the factory manager told AFP.
Sagami’s head office have said the condoms, which it says are only 0.02mm thick or 14 per cent thinner than normal ones, are worth RM4.5 million at Japanese retail prices.
Freight forwarders have said goods being shipped out of Malaysia routinely go missing and that many cases are inside jobs.
“There are locks, seals and checklists provided by freight forwarders and shipping lines for every part of the journey from factory to destination so it is very easy to find out where and when they were tampered with or changed,” said Air Freight Forwarders
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