Immigration nabs five foreigners for illegally collecting donations at Gelang Patah night market

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Foreigners, including some who are disabled have been hauled up by the Johor Immigration Department after being found collecting donations at a night market in Gelang Patah.on Tuesday (Jan 30).   The raid was conducted based on information from the public about foreigners posing as donation collectors.   Read more at https://shorturl.at/otwQZ   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Foreigners, including some who are disabled, have been hauled up by the Johor Immigration Department

00:06 after being found collecting donations at a night market in Geylang Pata.

00:11 Johor Immigration Director Baharudin Tahir said five of them were detained on Tuesday

00:17 in a joint operation with the Johor Bahru Social Welfare Department and State Islamic Religious Department.

00:23 The raid was conducted based on information from the public about foreigners posing as donation collectors.

00:30 Those detained were all men, three from Cambodia who suffer from various disabilities and two from Thailand.

00:37 A man and a woman from Indonesia were also detained at the night market for working at the stall illegally.

00:44 Meanwhile in a separate raid, 40 foreigners from Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, India and Cambodia

00:51 were detained in several hotspots on Monday and Tuesday.

00:55 The suspects, aged from 21 to 49 years old, were detained around Johor Bahru, Merseng, Batu Pahat and Segamat.

01:03 They were believed to be working without permits and have overstayed in the country.

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