November 25, 2020 2:41 PM
PETALING JAYA: Three foreign worker agents have been arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) as the anti-graft agency continues its crackdown on an immigration syndicate.
A source told FMT that the three individuals, between the ages 30 to 66, were detained to facilitate investigations into the falsifying of entry and exit stamps at KLIA and klia2.
The trio, one of whom is also a lawyer, was detained in Kuala Lumpur yesterday evening.
All three were remanded at the Putrajaya Magistrates’ Court this morning under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The MACC has detained 59 people so far as part of the ongoing Ops Selat – 34 immigration officers, 15 foreign worker agents and 10 civilians who allegedly acted as “mule accounts”.
An immigration deputy director based at KLIA was also arrested by the MACC.
It was previously reported that the syndicate catered to employers of foreign workers who wanted them to remain here or return to their home country.
The syndicate had two modus operandi, the first being a “flying passport” for those who came to Malaysia using social visas but were working here illegally.
The agents of the workers would collect their passports and pay the immigration officers to stamp their passports to indicate that they had left the country after three months and re-entered legally.
Its other modus operandi was “setting counters” for migrants who have been blacklisted for immigration offences.
The migrants would go to these particular counters at airports and pay up to RM6,000 to be allowed to leave the country even though they had been blacklisted from travelling.
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