IMMIGRATION DETAIN BANGLADESHI FASHION DESIGNER FOR FALSIFYING WORK PERMITS

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 14 (Bernama) -- A Bangladeshi fashion designer involved in
falsifying and selling work permits for RM50 to foreigners, was detained by the
Immigration Department's Enforcement Unit Thursday.

Immigration Dept Enforcement Director Ishak Mohamed said the man, aged 28,
was detained at a shop house in Ampang in the state of Selangor at about
11am Thursday together with a 25 year-old woman, believed to be his
accomplice.

"Initial investigations revealed that the man who had been staying in the
country for the past two years, worked in a fashion company in Sungai Besi," he
told reporters here Thursday.

Ishak said apart from work permits, the man was also involved in printing
and falsifying Indonesian passports, student visas and receipts to illegal
immigrants.

Ishak said 19 blank Immigration stickers, seven printed Immigration
stickers, two foreign worker cards, a foreign businessman's card, false rubber
stamps and two USB pen drives believed to contain replicas of false work
permits, a computer, printer and a Photostat machine worth more than RM5,000
were seized from the premise.

The couple would be charged under Section 56 1A(a) of the Immigration Act
1967 and if found guilty can be jailed for not more than five years, five
strokes of the Rotan and RM10,000 fine for every falsified document.
(US$1=RM3.50)
-- BERNAMA