130 Foreigners Detained By Immigration Department For Various Offences

Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud (Director General Immigration)

The raid that took place on the 15th of June, a total of 130 foreigners were detained for various offences in an Integrated Operation by the Immigration Department in Kajang and Puchong area on Saturday night.

The Immigration Director General Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud said that in the raid on 53 units of condominiums in Kajang, the department detained 78 Nigerians, six Philippine nationals and an Indian and a Pakistani national each, as well as four children aged between one and three years old.

He said another 40 foreigners were detained in an operation in a residential area in Puchong namely from Nepal, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Tanzania and Kenya.

"They were all found to have committed various offences including not having personal travelling documents, overstaying, abuse of passes, expiry of validity of student and tourist passes as well as indulging in business.

"We also found some of these foreigners were suspected to be involving in online scamming activities following the discovery of laptops containing doubtful information.

"The matter would be handed over to the police for further action," he told reporters after the conclusion of the Integrated Operation.

The operation was participated by 96 immigration officers, 15 officers from National Registration Department and five members of the Civil Defense Force beginning at 10:30pm at night and ending at about four hours later.

Khairul Dzaimee said members of the raiding party had to break open the door of houses occupied by the foreigners as they refused to cooperate.

He said all the foreign nationals detained were aged between one and 66 years and were taken to the Immigration lock-up in Putrajaya before being sent to the Immigration Detention Depot in Bukit Jalil or Semenyih, Selangor.