5 Filipinos held in fake documents rap
Published on: Friday, October 06, 2017
Kota Kinabalu: The Sabah Immigration Department crippled a document forgery syndicate and arrested five people in a raid at a squatter house in Batu 7, Jalan Labuk, Sandakan, Wednesday.The raid was conducted by Sandakan and Lahad Datu Immigration following information received by the department during the previous Ops Serkap in Kampung Bangkarat, Tungku, Lahad Datu, which revealed the presence of the counterfeit syndicate in Sandakan.The State department, in a statement here Thursday, said the five individuals arrested in the "Ops Serkap" between 4am and 5.30am were Filipinos, including a woman, aged from 14 to 52.
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"Two of the individuals hold a permanent residence identity card, one has a birth certificate and another without any documents."Initial investigations show the syndicate operating in Sandakan charges up to RM1,500 for a set of application documents," said the statement.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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