Three local men, two Indonesian women busted for falsifying identification documents

KUALA LUMPUR: The Immigration Department arrested three local men and two Indonesian women believed to be involved in falsifying work and identification documents during "Ops Serkap" on Saturday.
The syndicate dubbed as "Geng Ah Boy" was busted in a raid conducted by the Immigration Department's Enforcement, Intelligence and Operation unit.
The department's director-general Datuk Seri Mustafar Ali said the syndicate is believed to have forged Work Approval Letters, Temporary Work Visit Passes and I-Kads which they sold for between RM30 and RM180, according to the package offered.
"The syndicate have been active for the past three years and believed to have profited hundreds of thousands of ringgit," he told a media conference at city Immigration Department headquarters here today.
Mustafar said the syndicate's "customers" were mainly from the Klang Valley, particularly those in Chow Kit and Kampung Baru, and were workers from Indonesia and Bangladesh.
He added that the syndicate conduct their criminal activities by pretending to be salesmen involved with mobile phone and accessory business.
"They have so-called mobile accessories shop where female suspects worked as the 'sales assistants' at the premises," he said.
The suspects, aged between 25 and 38, will be investigated under Section 55D of the Immigration Act 1959/63 (Amendment 2002) for forgery or alteration of endorsement or document to be used as visa, permit and pass.
On a separate issue, Mustafar said that from Jan 1 until last Friday, the Immigration Department conducted 8,456 operations in their efforts to crack down on illegal foreign workers.
A total of 103,425 foreigners were screened. Of the total, 25,152 illegal workers and 656 employers were arrested.