IPOH: A 36-year-old scrap metal dealer, charged with harbouring two illegal immigrants, was quizzed by a magistrate over how he could make overseas trips despite being a bankrupt.
Magistrate Teoh Chin Chong questioned M. Thiyagarajan following an application by Immigration Department prosecuting officer Khairul Anwar Sulaiman for the court to impound the accused's passport as evidence showed he had gone to China and Thailand this year although he had been a bankrupt since 2003.
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