PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Border Control and Protection Agency (AKPS) has thwarted an attempt by four Afghan nationals, believed to be members of the same family, to enter Malaysia using fake visas.
According to AKPS, the four individuals – a man and three women – were among 132 foreigners checked during a monitoring and document screening operation at KLIA Terminal 1 recently.
It said the four were spotted wandering in the terminal area, which made the KLIA Terminal 1 Monitoring Unit suspicious.
"Based on initial investigations, the four arrived in Malaysia on July 24 at 9.20pm but failed to report to the Immigration counter within the specified time.
"It is learnt that they had been in the terminal area for four days without going through (the arrival) process," AKPS said in a statement on Tuesday (July 29).
AKPS said further checks on their travel documents revealed that the visas were fake.
"All of them admitted that they had never set foot in Uzbekistan, supposedly as a transit point, and the fake visas were obtained through an agent for a fee of US$6,000 (RM25,386)," the statement read.
As such, AKPS said, the individuals were denied entry and will be deported to their country of origin on Wednesday (July 30). – Bernama
