(Johor Bahru comprehensive) A Chinese cargo ship was detained by the Malaysian maritime law enforcement agency due to illegal salvage the cultural relics of the two Shenxin British warships.
Malaysian Maritime Law Enforcement Institutions, Johor, Johor, Nuruji, John, Tuesday (May 30) issued a statement saying that law enforcement officers found that the registered cargo ship registered in Fuzhou, China was not passed by on Sunday (28th) at noon (28th) at noon (28th).Pocket permits in the seas of Danjung Lane, Johor.Law enforcement officers found on the boat that it was likely to be metal wreckage and unwanted shells during World War II. They decided to detain the shipping ships and 32 crew members, including one Malaysian captain, 21 Chinese citizens and 10 Bangladesh citizens.
Nuruji said that the Maritime Law Enforcement Agency sent 15 law enforcement officers on Tuesday, together with 12 Johor police dismantling bombs, and officials of the State Administration of Cultural Relics, searching for cargo ships.bomb.The bullet demolition team has taken away all the shells and destroyed, and the police will release more detailed survey results after that.
Nuruji believes that cargo ships may illegally steal the wreckage of the British sinking warships in Pahang's waters.Maritime law enforcement agencies have preliminarily judged that shells are taken from the British battleship "Prince of Wales".The official will cooperate with the police and the State Administration of Cultural Relics to further confirm the year of the shells.
He said that the official is investigating whether there is a mother ship staying in a waters outside Malaysia."We believe that cargo ships may continue to turn back and from the mother ship to remove theft items."
The cargo ship has applied for salvage Chinese shipwreck but secretly salvage British warships
The New Strait Times reported that the cargo ship had applied to the official Malaysia to salvage a Chinese shipwreck in the Kantan waters, but secretly salvaged the British warships.
Social media Tiktok circulating a video shows that a cargo ship unloaded cultural relics at a waste field in a waste field in Paulige, Johor, including a cannon.After receiving the news, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage was assault to check the waste material and found that it may belong to the "Prince of Wales".
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor. Three days later, the "Prince Wales" and "Revisible" battleships were sinking in the sea of the Guan Dan, causing 835 officers and soldiers to be killed.After Britain, the wreckage of the two ships was the tomb of the underground army.
The two British ships were not illegally salvaged for the first time. In November 2014, the Malaysian Navy arrested 17 illegally salvage Vietnamese fishermen.
The British Daily Mail reported in August 2018 that more than 12 Chinese ships have been illegally salvaged in the Sea of World War II in Indonesia and Malaysia for many years to obtain high -quality steel.
