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PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) detained three agents of foreign workers in the framework of “Ops Selat”, the national bombing against a union for counterfeiting immigration stamps.
The Putrajaya Magistrates Court allowed the three to remain in pre-trial detention by MACC until December 1.
The officers were arrested in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (November 24) evening and taken to the Magistrates Court on Wednesday (November 25) morning for the request for pre-trial detention under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Sources have said that one of the agents is a lawyer, while the other two are related to an agency for foreign workers.
So far, 59 people have been arrested since Ops Selat was launched on November 16.
This includes 15 foreign worker agents, 34 Immigration Department officials and 10 others who have been acting as account mules.
The union provided “sealing facilities” for foreign workers and illegal immigrants and is believed to be involved in international human trafficking, particularly in China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
This was discovered during the union’s investigations, which found that foreign agents had been working with immigration officers at KLIA and KLIA2 to help foreigners in and out of Malaysia.
Investigators also found that a low-ranking immigration officer involved in the union could afford to own a fleet of luxury cars.
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