Immigration officer on the run

KUALA LUMPUR: An Immigration officer and his former colleague are on the run after police crippled a syndicate that forged documents for tens of thousands of passports and cheated companies of millions of ringgit by processing fake foreign worker permits.

The syndicate, believed to have been active for a year, was crippled when police arrested its 44-year-old mastermind and nine others, including two foreign women, said Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigations Department deputy director (intelligence and operations) Senior Asst Comm Datuk Jalil Hassan.