Two big jet engines returned home after two long years

Google Translate from Malay to English. I've 'tweaked' the transalation (: 

F-5E jet engines have brought back the lost (F-5E jet engines brought back to homeland) Kota Bharu: engine fighter, the F-5E, owned by the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), which was reported missing two years ago to trigger controversy in this country have been brought back to the homeland. (The F-5E fighter engines owned by the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), that were reported missing two years ago and had triggered a controversy in this country, have been brought back to the homeland.) Defence Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, said that the effort to bring home the combat aircraft engines from Uruguay to the country by the government and the Attorney General, Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail to ensure that the assets of the country remained in Malaysia. (Defence Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, said that the effort to bring home the combat aircraft engines from Uruguay to the country by the government and the Attorney General, Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, was to ensure that the assets of the country remained in Malaysia.) - news @ Berita Harian.

If the return of the two jet engines required the involvment of high-ranking officials of the Malaysian government and its counterpart, I am sure the same requirement was needed for them to be smuggled out of the country! If not, how else could two enormous engines be taken out of the 'store room' of RMAF?