15 Immigration Department officers get the chop

Keeping vigilant: Sakib (second left) talking to an Immigration officer as she processes tourists at the arrival hall in Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

SEPANG: Fifteen Immigration Department officers have been sacked, 14 suspended from work and eight had their increments frozen over the Malaysian Immigration System (myIMMs) fiasco that has seen billions being siphoned into the hands of syndicates.

And this is just the beginning of the clean-up at the Immigration Department. A new set of officers will be assigned to KLIA and 20 others are still under investigation.