Malaysian immigration officers fired for disabling passport controls

A significant number of Malaysian immigration officers have been sacked for disabling passport controls to enable human trafficking.While 15 have been fired, dozens more have been suspended or transferred due to the scandal.Immigration Director-General Sakib Kusmi told Malaysian media on Tuesday that the dismissed and suspended officers may have links to human-trafficking syndicates.”They deal online. The instructions come from overseas … they can manipulate our system from outside. You can see this in our computers – the cursor moves without someone operating it,” he said.Ongoing technical faults regularly reported at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), which led to hundreds of passengers at a time being waved through immigration without the normal checks, led to the three-month investigation.The fifteen suspects were in police custody, Mr Sakib said, while 14 more officers were suspended and another 20 personnel, believed to be involved directly or indirectly in sabotaging computer systems over the past six years, were being monitored by immigration's intelligence division.The syndicate … was able to control the movement of anyone entering or leaving the country.Malaysian Immigration Director-General Sakib Kusmi”We also transferred 63 officers out of our headquarters in Putrajaya and have prepared a new name list for personnel that are supposed to be stationed at airports,” Mr Sakib said

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