Over 60 foreigners arrested in Johor for immigration offenses, two posed as night market beggars

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The Johor Immigration Department has arrested over 60 foreigners, including four who have been pretending to be beggars in a night market, in a series of operations earlier this week.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2xmve59y  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The Johor Immigration Department arrested over 60 foreigners, including four individuals

00:07posing as beggars in a night market, in a series of operations earlier this week.

00:13Its director, Datuk Mohamad Rusti Mohamad Darus, reported that the arrests were made

00:18in separate operations across Johor Bahru and Batu Pahat between October 28 and 29.

00:26In one of these operations, four men from Cambodia and Thailand were detained for pretending

00:31to be beggars at a night market in Geylang Pata.

00:34Among the suspects was a man with an amputated leg, allegedly seeking public sympathy by

00:39claiming to collect donations for tafiz schools and other religious institutions.

00:45Mohamad Rusti noted that the strategic location and public generosity allowed them to earn

00:51up to 400 ringgit daily, amounting to 12,000 ringgit monthly.

00:57The group had reportedly engaged in this activity for the past three months.

01:01In two other operations around Johor Bahru, 51 foreigners were arrested for various immigration

01:06offences.

01:08Another joint operation was conducted with the Iskandar Putri City Council and the Johor

01:13Health Department, where seven business premises were inspected in Iskandar Putri.

01:19Of the 72 people checked, 33 were arrested for immigration violations.

01:24Further checks on two factories in Taman Mewa led to the arrest of 18 foreign workers for

01:30immigration offences.

01:32In Batu Pahat, another operation led to the arrest of 10 foreigners and two local business

01:37owners, following public complaints about illegal foreign workers.

01:42Of the 38 people screened, 10 foreigners were arrested for overstaying and lacking valid

01:47travel documents, while two locals were detained for harbouring illegal immigrants.

01:52These locals are under investigation under Section 56.1.D of the Immigration Act.

01:59The foreigners arrested across the four operations, aged between 21 and 56, hailed from Myanmar,

02:05Indonesia, Vietnam, Pakistan and Cambodia.

02:09They face investigations under the Immigration Act and regulations for lacking valid permits

02:15or overstaying, and the Immigration Regulations 1963 for violating social visit pass conditions.

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