The Johor Immigration Department has apprehended a Bangladeshi cashier and four other foreigners at a store in Taman Abad, Johor Bahru. The state’s Immigration director, Baharuddin Tahir, disclosed that the cashier was found in possession of passports belonging to other individuals. Baharuddin stated, “The cashier led us to find three plastic bags filled with six Indian and Bangladeshi passports, stashed in a locked room at the premises. During the raid at around 9.10pm on Wednesday (Jan 3), we also detained two other Bangladeshi men and two Indonesian women. All the suspects were aged 22 to 45 years old,”
He added that the cashier was detained under Section 55E of the Immigration Act 1959/63 (Act 155) for allowing illegal migrants into the premises and Section 12(1)(f) of the Passports Act 1966 (Act 150) for possessing passports or travel documents belonging to others without a valid reason. Baharuddin also added that the two women did not possess any identification papers while the two other men had gone against their immigration passes. He stated, “All of them were working in the same shop.”
In a separate raid in Mersing, Baharuddin reported that three Indonesian women and a Thai woman were arrested at a reflexology centre. The public tip-off was received about individuals violating their social visit passes at the premises located in Endau. Apart from detaining the four foreign women aged 27 to 34 years old, the department also seized nine condoms, two towels, two massage ointments and a customer record book. The suspects were detained under Rule 39(b) of the Immigration Regulations 1963 Act.
