Audit: Immigration loses RM81.69mil in unclaimed penalties

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Weaknesses in terms of monitoring and agreements that are not very clear have resulted in losses for the Immigration Department amounting to RM81.69mil due to penalties not imposed on a company that handled the online collection of Temporary Employment Visit Pass (TEVP) revenue.

According to the the Auditor-General's Report 2020, published on Thursday (Oct 28), it was found that the Immigration Department had failed to impose penalties for late delivery of TEVP stickers amounting to RM73.89mil as well as delayed remittance penalties and penalties for printing the stickers wrongly, amounting to RM0.49mil and RM7.31mil, respectively.