Family-run Bangladeshi syndicate churning out fake ID cards busted


Forbidden craft: Mustafar (left) with Federal Territory Immigration director Hamidi Adam showing a few of the fake CIDB cards and the foreign workers temporary e-cards made by the syndicate, at the press conference at the Home Ministry Complex in Kuala Lumpur. — Bernama

PETALING JAYA: All it took was 10 minutes, with easily available material and equipment, for a family-run Bangladeshi syndicate to churn out Enforcement Cards for undocumented foreign workers.

The Immigration Department arrested 14 suspects, including a man and his wife during a raid at a house in Seri Kembangan, after about three weeks of surveillance.

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