Johor Immigration nabs 54 in raid on popular entertainment outlet

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Johor Immigration officers detained 54 individuals, including a local employer, during a special operation at a popular entertainment outlet in Mount Austin on Tuesday (April 22).   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/ym3bv2aj   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Johor immigration officers detained 54 individuals, including a local employer, during a special

00:08operation at a popular entertainment outlet in Mount Austin on Tuesday.

00:13State Immigration Director Datuk Mohamed Rusti Mohamed Darus said 109 individuals were screened

00:21in the raid, codenamed Ops Gegar.

00:23Those detained included 29 Vietnamese, 11 Thai nationals, 7 Indian nationals, 4 Laotian

00:31women, 1 Bangladeshi man and 1 Indonesian man, all aged between 20 and 40.

00:38A 35-year-old local man, believed to be the caretaker of the premises, was arrested under

00:44Section 56, Subsection 1, Subsection D of the Immigration Act for harboring undocumented

00:50migrants.

00:50Six others were issued notices to assist in the investigation.

00:56All detainees are currently being held at the Setia Tropica Immigration Depot for further

01:01investigation.

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