Immigration busts foreign worker syndicate using forged permits


PUTRAJAYA: A syndicate which supplies illegal immigrants with fake temporary visit permits (PLKS) and is believed to have raked in RM4.5mil to RM5mil a year, has been busted by the Immigration Department in a special operation over two days since Wednesday (April 5).

In the operation, 43 men from India, 20 Bangladeshis and two Pakistanis aged from 25 to 45 were detained at a factory, a foreign worker dormitory in Selangor and the syndicate's office in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.

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