Ring behind fake birth certs busted


Protecting the national identity: Saifuddin Nasution, flanked by Badrul Hisham (right) and Awang Alik, showing the fake MyKad and birth certificates during the press conference in Putrajaya. — AZHAR MAHFOF/ The Star

PUTRAJAYA: A syndicate has been found using forged documents to register undocumented children, some of whom may have been smuggled from overseas.

Over the past three years, the syndicate allegedly registered 80 fraudulent birth certificates through the National Regis­tra­­tion Department (NRD), falsely declaring undocumented children as Malaysians using fake documents.

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