Two Pakistani men nabbed in passport forgery crackdown in Setapak

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A document forgery syndicate has been busted after raids by the Immigration Department saw the arrest of nine foreigners including two suspected “masterminds”.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/x2gUt  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A document forgery syndicate was busted after raids by the Immigration Department

00:05saw the arrest of nine foreigners, including the two suspected masterminds.

00:10An operation was conducted on November 14 in Starbuck,

00:14leading to three raids in the area following public complaints.

00:18Two suspected masterminds of the group were caught, including seven other suspects.

00:23The masterminds, both Pakistani men, were aged 27 and 55 years old.

00:29Upon questioning, the operation team was led to a residence

00:33where 161 passports of various origins were seized.

00:37One of the two masterminds still had a valid temporary working pass,

00:41whereas the other had no valid documentation.

00:44The syndicate's modus operandi included offering passports to foreigners

00:48who do not have travel documents.

00:51They would use genuine passports or those that have expired,

00:54and transfer its bioreta information to their clients

00:58to obtain foreign workers' medical examination monitoring agency health examinations.

01:04Charging RM200 per transaction, the syndicate is believed to have been in operation for six months.

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