Immigration Dept busts fake rehiring group

Major seizure: Mustafar (right) showing the seized foreign passports at the press conference in Putrajaya.

PUTRAJAYA: A syndicate fraudulently running the Immigration Department’s rehiring programme has been busted, after earning some RM2.2mil in profit.

The syndicate, masterminded by a 35-year-old Malaysian known as ‘Abang Is’, was found to have cheated over 270 foreign workers from India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Myanmar.