False document ring busted, family held

KUALA LUMPUR: A syndicate comprising members of a family involved in making fake immigration documents and stickers was busted on Tuesday night.

Immigration Director-General Datuk Seri Mustafar Ali said they arrested 14 men and one woman at homes in Puchong and Seri Kembangan, adding that all the suspects were related to one another.

He added that during the raid, a threeyear-old child was found in one of the homes.

“At a house in Puchong, specifically rented by the syndicate to carry out their activities, the department confiscated computer equipment valued at RM10,000 and RM6,977 in cash.

“We also confiscated a car valued at RM40,000,” he said yesterday.

He said the family syndicate which has been operating for close to a year, is estimated to have raked in between RM20,000 and RM30,000 a month.

Mustafar said the syndicate had been making fake temporary workers passes, Enforcement Card (E-Card) and CIDB cards.

He said their modus operandi was to rent phone shops to inform their customers about their services.

He warned operators of small phone shops not to help “advertise” the services of such syndicates, adding that there are many more such syndicates operating in the country.

Mustafar got one of the syndicate members to demonstrate how quickly they could produce fake documents for customers.

Mustafar was speaking at the Corruption-Free Pledge at the Immigration Department here. During the ceremony, he told his officers that integrity must come first.

Otherwise no matter what they try to portray will be a failure because the people will not have any trust in them. – by Rajvinder Singh