229 illegals nabbed under nationwide ‘Ops Mega 3.0’


Desperation: An illegal immigrant making a break for it while a plain-clothes Immigration officer tries to detain him in Kuala Lumpur.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Immigration Depart­ment’s Ops Mega 3.0 operation – launched at midnight Sunday – resulted in the arrest of 229 immigrants.

Bernama reported that Immigra­tion personnel checked the travel documents of 1,672 immigrants.

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