JOHOR BARU: The Johor Immigration Department has detained a Bangladeshi cashier and four other foreigners at a shop in Taman Abad here.
State Immigration director Baharuddin Tahir said the cashier was found in possession of passports belonging to other individuals.
“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 said in a statement on Thursday (Jan 4).
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 added that the two women did not possess any identification papers while the two other men had gone against their immigration passes.
All of them were working in the same shop, he added.
In a separate raid in Mersing, Baharuddin said three Indonesian women and a Thai woman were detained at a reflexology centre on Wednesday night.
“We received a public tip-off about some 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,” he said.
The suspects were detained under Rule 39(b) of the Immigration Regulations 1963 Act, he added.
