12 held over foreign workers permit scam


Busted: An MACC officer taking one of the suspects into custody.

PETALING JAYA: Twelve people, including two women, who acted as middlemen and agents to help renew temporary foreign workers permits (PLKS) have been detained by anti-graft officers in a sting operation.

The suspects, aged between 33 and 50, were rounded up during simultaneous raids at about 11am yesterday in four states.

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