KULAI: A total of 117 undocumented foreign workers at a medical equipment factory here have been detained for working without permits.
Johor Immigration Department director Datuk Mohd Rusdi Mohd Darus said the manufacturing firm in Senai was raided at 7am on Friday (Feb 27).
“The 52 men and 65 women, from Myanmar and Bangladesh, could not produce valid identification documents and are believed to have been working there without permits,” he said.
“The raid followed several weeks of intensive intelligence surveillance after a public tip-off that claimed the factory owner was harbouring undocumented workers to avoid the high cost of hiring legal foreign labour,” he said in a statement on Sunday (March 1).
Mohd Rusdi added that the factory’s human resources officer was also detained to assist in the investigation.
He said the detainees, aged 19 to 52, have been sent to the Setia Tropika Immigration depot for investigation under the Immigration Act 1959/63 and Immigration Regulations 1963.
He added that the department would continue to conduct similar raids statewide to tackle immigration-related offences.
