Immigration Dept busts passport-forging syndicate in KL


PUTRAJAYA: A passport-forging syndicate catering to foreigners wanting to pass the Foreign Workers’ Medical Examination Monitoring Agency (Fomema) medical check-ups has been dismantled with the arrest of five Bangladeshi men.

Immigration Department director-general Datuk Zakaria Shaaban stated that two of the detainees, apprehended on Tuesday (Sept 2), were the masterminds behind the syndicate.

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