39 foreigners nabbed at two construction sites in Permy, Senadin

MIRI: Thirty- nine foreigners were arrested in two separate operations at housing construction sites in Permy and Senadin here on Thursday for entering the country illegally.

General Operations Force (GOF) Battalion 12 commanding officer Supt Tan Hiap Seng in a press statement said the operations codenamed ‘ Op Libas’ were conducted jointly with the Sarawak Immigration Department.

A total of 55 personnel comprising 43 GOF members and 12 Immigration officers were involved in the operations where they checked 60 people at the two locations. Only 39 were found to have committed immigrationrelated offences.

“Out of the 39 arrested, 31 were men, eight women including one woman of unknown nationality while the rest were Indonesians,” he said, adding four were arrested at South Lake Permy, and 35 at the second location.

Fifteen of those arrested had overstayed and are being detained under Section 15 (1) (c) of the Immigration Act 1959/63 (Act 155) while 16 under Section 6 (1) ( c) of the Immigration Act 1959/63 for entering the country without valid documents.

“Eight others were detained under Section 11 ( 7) ( a) of the Immigration Regulations 1966 for violating their social visit pass,” Tan said.

All detainees have been referred to the Immigration Department for further investigation.