Immigration touches Bangladesh and seizes 85 passports for the illegal execution of a rehiring program – Nation

PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): The Immigration Department arrested a Bangladeshi national and seized 85 passports as well as money during a raid conducted in a mini-market that was transformed in office to illegally rehire illegal foreign workers.

In a statement released Thursday, July 5, the general director of the Department of Immigration, Datuk Seri Mustafar Ali, said the activities had been discovered during the "Mega Ops 3.0". in Selangor on Wednesday 4th July. – market, owned by a company, operates this program of rehire illegally for more than a year charging between RM 5,500 and RM 8,000 each for the registration of undocumented foreign workers.

"During the inspection, 85 copies of passports Passports mostly for Bangladeshi were seized as well as various documents relating to the business and to the immigration. 39, a sum of 16,600 RM, which is believed to be the result of this activity, "he said.

Mustafar said that a Bangladeshi, suspected of being directly involved in the operations of the rehire program, was also arrested. ] "We advise anyone wishing to contact the Department of Immigration regarding the recruitment of foreign workers to contact us directly without any agent or mediator for consulting services," he said. Meanwhile, Mustafar said the Department of Immigration had stepped up its efforts to hunt down illegal immigrants through "Ops Mega 3.0" by conducting raids in places where there was a concentration of foreigners in the country. Subang Indah, Selangor

A total of 113 illegal immigrants, mostly Bangladeshi citizens, including Indonesian and Pakistani nationals, were arrested for the operations were conducted by the Putrajaya Immigration Department with the participation of 70 agents in 14 commercial premises of the Spectrum Bandar Sunway, which became the focal point of the four-hour operation that started Wednesday at 7 pm. strangers. – Bernama