KUALA LUMPUR: A total of nine individuals, including five enforcement officers, were arrested on suspicion of smuggling migrants into the country in an operation in Sabah last Thursday.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission , in a statement on Saturday , said the enforcement personnel, aged between 30 and 41 and included two women, were arrested between 2.30pm and 8.40pm in a joint operation, code-named"Op Lancar”, between the commission and the National Registration Department .
According to the statement, the modus operandi of the syndicate was to charge illegal immigrants or those without valid documents about RM2,500 per head for their passage to leave Sabah via Tawau Airport to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport using other persons’ identities. Based on the MACC’s investigation, the syndicate, believed to have been operating since 2018, provides boarding passes to bring in between five and 20 illegal immigrants on each flight to KLIA.
Meanwhile, the Immigration Department in a separate statement, today confirmed that five Sabah Immigration Department officers were arrested by the MACC last Thursday for alleged involvement in the smuggling of illegal immigrants into the country.
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