PETALING JAYA: Former Inspector-General of Police Tun Hanif Omar (pic) recalled that an Indonesian was nabbed with a Malaysian identity card a week after new security features were introduced.
He said the case happened in the 1990s when currency printer Thomas de la Rue was given the contract to supply new ICs with “enhanced security features”, but police arrested the Indonesian illegal immigrant with the new card barely a week after the launch of the new documents.
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