Immigration Department raids ewaste recycling factory, discovers over half a million ringgit in cash

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The Immigration Department discovered more than half a million ringgit in cash during a raid on a factory that hired illegal immigrants.  During a press conference on Wednesday (March 20) Immigration Department director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh said the raid was conducted on Tuesday (March 19) at a factory that processed recycled electronics in Port Klang.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/43f9dmw8   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 "This operation is based on public complaint.

00:07 There is an activity, a recycling of our goods,

00:11 which is said to be done by many foreigners.

00:16 As a result of the operation,

00:19 we have detained one Malaysian citizen

00:25 and one Chinese citizen,

00:27 who is the director and owner of the factory.

00:31 We also detained four Chinese citizens,

00:37 who are the directors of the factory.

00:43 We also detained three Chinese workers,

00:48 36 citizens from Myanmar,

00:51 one Indonesian citizen

00:53 and two women citizens.

00:58 We detained a total of 48 people.

01:01 Of the 48, 43 have no documents,

01:05 and the other five have documents.

01:08 We found that two men and a Chinese woman

01:14 have valid salary pass,

01:18 and they also have a valid salary pass.

01:26 One Chinese citizen, who we detained,

01:30 has been in jail for a long time,

01:32 and one man from Myanmar,

01:35 who is under 16 years old,

01:37 who we detained during the operation,

01:40 who has a Myanmar ID card.

01:44 So, from the total of 43 people who have no documents,

01:50 five of them have documents.

01:53 The operation team has successfully seized

01:57 the license to operate from the regional assembly,

02:01 the company's documents,

02:03 the SSM's certificate of success,

02:05 the record of the business of the key to the premises,

02:08 six Chinese passport documents,

02:12 four telephone bills,

02:14 and a large amount of cash,

02:16 which is RM688,900,

02:20 and also 42 punch cards.

02:25 What we know is that the company's operation

02:29 is to process electronic junk,

02:33 which is cables and wires,

02:35 and they get iron or aluminum.

02:40 These are the things that are brought from abroad,

02:44 and processed in the jail,

02:47 and sold back to the local market.

02:51 We suspect that,

02:53 and from the initial investigation,

02:56 they paid the party with a salary of around RM2,000-3,000.

03:01 And what is important is that

03:04 we suspect that they have been there for a long time,

03:08 and the factory also provides a place to live for the foreigners.

03:14 And we have found that the clear mistakes

03:18 for those who were arrested are two.

03:23 The first is that for the foreigners,

03:26 they were there without a valid passport,

03:30 and also without a valid work permit.

03:32 This involves the citizens, and they are the party.

03:36 And there is another mistake,

03:38 where the company's owner,

03:40 who is a citizen of China,

03:42 also paid the party,

03:44 in an unfair way,

03:46 under Section 55B of the Immigration Act.

03:48 So, what is all of them?

03:50 We investigated under the Immigration Act of 1963,

03:53 the Passport Act of 1966,

03:55 and also the Immigration Regulations of 1963,

03:59 and also the Anti-Trading and Migrant Residence Act of 2007.

04:04 And all of them are now detained at the Jalil Hill Detention Center.

04:09 For the time being, they are there.

04:11 And during the operation,

04:15 we were able to detain two Malaysian citizens,

04:19 where we have given them notice

04:23 to come and give an explanation to the investigation team.

04:30 For more information, visit www.fema.gov.uk/covid19

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