KUALA LUMPUR: The Immigration Department has uncovered a syndicate involved in issuing refugee cards to the ethnic Chin from Myanmar following a raid conducted at a flat housing area in Jalan Imbu here Friday (Jan 6) night.
said the activity was believed to be orchestrated by an unregistered organisation that had been operating in one of the flats in the area since 2009."Based on the seized payment receipts, an estimated 1,000 people of the Chin ethnicity have become members of this organisation," he told a press conference after the raid which ended at 2.30am on Saturday .
According to Khairul Dzaimee, the card shows that the holder is a Chin ethnic refugee who is waiting for permission to go to a third country. Khairul Dzaimee said the department believed the activity was masterminded by individuals from the Chin ethnic group themselves and that efforts would be made to track them down.
In the operation last night, he said, a total of 1,051 foreigners were rounded up and 544 of them, aged between one and 68 years, were detained for various immigration offences and they were sent to the Bukit Jalil Immigration Detention Depot.He said the operation was conducted by 115 Immigration personnel assisted by 43 personnel from other departments, including the National Registration Department and the Civil Defence Department.
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