Four arrested for Labour Programme fraud


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KUALA LUMPUR: Three foreign men and a local man were arrested for allegedly operating a fraudulent outsourcing syndicate to make a profit of RM2mil from the government’s Labour Recalibration Programme (RTK).

Immigration Department director-general Datuk Seri Khairul Dzaimee Daud said the four, aged between 20 and 47, were detained at a tourism office here last Friday, along with the seizure of 264 passports from countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and India, with the intention to register the migrants in the RTK programme.

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