Major haul: Zakaria (centre) with fellow officers Basri Othman (left) and Mohd Anas Muhamad Dzarib showing the seized fake passports at the press conference in Putrajaya. — ART CHEN/The Star
PUTRAJAYA: A passport-forging syndicate that used impostors to undergo health checks on behalf of unfit foreigners during medical screenings has been crippled, with Immigration officers arresting five Bangladeshi men including two alleged masterminds.
The syndicate caters to foreigners, who want to pass the Foreign Workers’ Medical Examination Monitoring Agency (Fomema) medical check-ups, said Immigration director-general Datuk Zakaria Shaaban.
