152 foreigners in Cyberjaya online scam fined


Facing the law: Some of the scammers being led into the Sepang Sessions Court.

SEPANG: A total of 152 Chinese nationals along with a Bangladeshi have pleaded guilty to entering the country without valid documents and overstaying. They included 130 men and 23 women aged between 19 and 34, who were detained in a recent immigration raid on an online scam operation in Cyberjaya.

The charges against them were read out in Mandarin and Malay by three interpreters from the Immigration Department.

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