Three foreign siblings nabbed for falsifying documents

Published: Friday January 14, 2011 MYT 8:49:00 PM
Three foreign siblings nabbed for falsifying documents

KUALA LUMPUR: Immigration officers had to use pepper spray to overcome three siblings of foreign nationality who resisted arrest over suspected falsification of passports and visas to the tune of RM100,000 a month during an operation here Thursday night.

Kuala Lumpur Immigration Enforcement Division deputy chief Mohamed Yusof Khan Mohamed Hassan said today the two men and a woman, aged between 25 and 35, were picked up after a one-month surveillance. "We are looking for others who were part of the syndicate involved in the forgery," he told reporters at the Kuala Lumpur Immigration Office, here. He said the officers seized false passports, applications for the forged visas, disembarkation cards and stamps.

Mohamed Yusof Khan said their modus operandi was to look for foreign nationals desperate for travel documents and charge them as high as RM2,500 per person for the forged ones.

The trio were being remanded for 14 days for investigation under the Immigration Act, he said. Bernama