Compiled by TARRENCE TAN and BEH YUEN HUI
A DOCUMENT forgery syndicate operating out of an apartment unit in Kepong has been dismantled by the police, reported Malay daily Sinar Harian.
According to the report, the syndicate’s activities were uncovered during a raid on July 22 by the Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department’s enforcement division following public tip-off and investigations.
During the raid, hundreds of passports in the midst of being forged were discovered in the three-bedroom apartment and two Bangladeshi men in their twenties were caught red-handed processing the fake passports.
It is understood that the syndicate charged RM400 for each fake passport, and that they are able to produce a fake passport in just 10 minutes.
Kuala Lumpur Immigration director Wan Mohammed Saupee Wan Yusoff, who led the operation after one month of surveillance, said the syndicate’s modus operandi involved providing fake passports to deceive clinics in obtaining health reports from Foreign Workers Medical Examination Monitoring Agency.
> Actress and entrepreneur Wawa Zainal has denied that her health issues over the past year were related to “penyakit ain”, or the evil eye, reported Berita Harian.
“Before this, I rarely got fever, but now, I often suffer from gastritis. But I can’t say I am afflicted by ‘ain.’ If I have hurt anyone’s feelings, I apologise,” said the 34-year-old Wawa, whose real name in Nur Hawa Zainal Abidin.
Earlier this month, Wawa, a mother of four, was hospitalised for a severe gastritis attack.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
