Eighty-one Filipinos have been arrested in Malaysia for illegal entry, an online news report said Wednesday.
The illegal migrants from the Philippines were arrested during the raid on two squatter houses at the Kampung Forest in Sandakan, the Daily Express report said.
Sandakan is the second biggest city in Malaysia’s eastern state of Sabah on Borneo Island.
Arrested along with the 81 were a 45-year-old man and his 59-year-old wife, who were accused of forging and selling documents to illegal migrants.
Sabah Marine Operations Force (MOF) commanding officer Muhammad Sallam Spawi was quoted in the report as saying the couple supplied fake documents to Filipinos who were illegally entering Malaysia through Sandakan.
Spawi said the couple stayed in one of the squatter houses while another was rented out to the Filipinos while they wait for their fake documentation.
Recovered during the raids were two imitation stamps bearing the seal of the Bureau of Immigration in the Philippines, several fake documents, Philippine passports, visitor’s passes, and photographs. – Kimberly Jane T. Tan, GMANews.TV
