11 Bangladeshis arrested in Malaysia

The Immigration Department of Malaysia has arrested 29 people including Bangladeshis involved in remittance smuggling through Hundi. The immigration department arrested these hundi traders in special operations in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor on April 2 and 3. However, the immigration police did not release their names immediately after the arrest.

On Tuesday (April 5), the country's director-general of immigration, Ruslin Jusoh, said raids were carried out at 10 locations to catch unlicensed hundi traders from India, Indonesia and Bangladesh.

He said 29 foreigners were arrested in raids conducted at three different locations by the Immigration Department and the Intelligence Department in collaboration with Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).

Among those arrested are 11 Bangladeshis, 5 Indians, 8 Indonesian men and two women.

He said hundi traders sell electronic products at restaurants, grocery stores, cosmetics outlets and kiosks to avoid arrest and entice expatriates from Malaysia to send money to the country.

3 lakh 527 ringgit, mobile phones, record books and documents for sending remittances to different countries were seized in the raid.

The arrested have been kept at Simonia Immigration Depot pending further investigation.

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