WELLINGTON: A Malaysian husband and wife and their daughter-in-law pleaded guilty yesterday to bringing Malaysians into New Zealand to illegally work in vineyards in the first case under tough new immigration laws aimed at halting the arrival of illegal migrants.
The three – Heng Lee, 53, his wife Koi Hen Chan, 51, and their daughter-in-law, Lay Kheng Chua, 30, – pleaded guilty to 24 charges related to illegally bringing four Malaysians to New Zealand and finding them work.
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