Bukit Aman APTISOM division detained 105 foreigners in three Sekinchan and Sabak Bernam raids, seizing phones and cash.
SHAH ALAM: Police have arrested 105 foreigners in a series of anti-trafficking and anti-smuggling operations in Selangor.
The Bukit Aman Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants (APTISOM) Division conducted the raids with other agencies around Sekinchan and Sabak Bernam.
Selangor police chief Datuk Shazeli Kahar said the first operation targeted a residence in Sekinchan at 2.40 am.
Four suspected caretakers, three men and a woman aged 24 to 32, were detained alongside 36 other foreigners.
Authorities also seized six mobile phones during the raid.
A second operation at the Sekinchan jetty at 2.15 am led to the arrest of six more foreigners.
“A foreign man, 19, who acted as the driver, as well as five other foreigners, 19 to 41, who did not have valid travel documents, were arrested,” Shazeli said.
Police confiscated four mobile phones and RM157 in cash from this group.
The third operation involved a marine police and MAPO task force patrol in Sabak Bernam waters.
They intercepted an unregistered boat at 2.15 am.
A 43-year-old foreign man acting as helmsman and two suspected crew members were arrested.
Another 56 foreigners on the boat, aged 16 to 56, were also detained for lacking valid travel documents.
Three mobile phones were seized from the vessel.
The case is being investigated under the ATIPSOM Act 2007 and the Immigration Act 1959/63. – Bernama
