Immigration smashes two syndicates involved in forging papers
Immigration director-general Datuk Zakaria Shaaban said that based on a two-week surveillance, his team raided three locations in Jalan Ampang and Jalan Kia Peng here at 12.10pm last Tuesday.
They arrested five Chinese nationals and one Myanmar national, aged between 28 and 41, and subsequently dismantled the Ejen 001 group.
He said the team seized 23 Chinese passports, one Vanuatu passport, two sets of computer central processing units, premises stamp, four handphones, two Employment Pass cards, two sets of Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation application copies, one Chinese travel document and RM50,000 in cash.
'Preliminary investigations found that the Chinese national is believed to be the mastermind in offering immigration document-related services to other Chinese nationals in the country, such as applications for Social Visit Passes and Special Passes,' he said in a statement here yesterday, Bernama reported.
He said Ejen 001 was operating behind office premises that had been turned into an operations centre to deceive authorities, while the charges imposed were from RM10,000 to RM15,000 for each service offered.
The operations were believed to have been going on for the past six months.
In the second raid at 5.42pm on three business premises on Jalan Raja Laut here, Zakaria said the team arrested three Bangladeshi men, aged between 24 and 32.
They were identified as being involved in the forgery of Immigration documents for the Temporary Employment Visit Pass (ePLKS).
He said it was believed a group known as Al Ameen was involved in the forgery of ePLKS, targeting Bangladeshi nationals who do not have work permits here.
'The results of the QR Code check on ePLKS found that the owner is a different individual and there is no information, while the syndicate operates this illegal activity from mobile phone shops to deceive the authorities. They had been operating for six months,' he said, adding that the fee charged was RM30 to RM70 for one unit of fake ePLKS .
The team seized 18 Bangladeshi passports, one Pakistani passport, three laptops, two printers, closed-circuit television camera, a Kuala Lumpur City Hall licence and cash amounting to RM3,446.
Zakaria said all the detained individuals were taken to the Putrajaya Immigration Depot for further investigation.
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