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Police to record statements from freed 47 M’sians

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A file photo of the freed Malaysians outside the entrance of an eatery in the vicinity of the Banteay Meanchey provincial prison. They returned home last Sunday.
A file photo of the freed Malaysians outside the entrance of an eatery in the vicinity of the Banteay Meanchey provincial prison. They returned home last Sunday.

SHAH ALAM: Police will soon record statements from the 47 Malaysian citizens freed recently after being detained for about two months at the Banteay Meanchey provincial prison in Cambodia.

Deputy Inspector-general of Police Tan Sri Noor Rashid  Ibrahim said preliminary investigations revealed there was a criminal element in the case and investigations were conducted under Section 26 of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants 2007.

“First and foremost, we want to know the actual story. How the (victims) involved were taken to Cambodia. What was promised by the company offering the jobs to them.

‘’We want to see whether elements of cheating or deception existed…what were promised to the victims, did the company involved fulfil its promises in terms of accommodation, facilities and others,’’ he told reporters after attending a Selangor Police Contingent Headquarters ‘Pingat  Jasa  Pahlawan  Negara’ awards conferring ceremony to 318 police officers here Tuesday.

He was commenting on the statement by Sarawak Commercial CID chief Superintendent Mustafa Kamal Gani Abdullah that police had identified a local who was suspected to be involved in an employment cheating syndicate following the detention of the 47 Malaysians in Cambodia.

Mustafa Kamal was reported to have said that the police were hot on the heels of the suspects after eight police reports were received to date.

Forty-three of the 47 Malaysians who were freed by the Cambodian authorities namely, 40 from Sarawak and three from Sabah, arrived at the Kuching International Airport on Sunday.

The remaining Malaysians, three from Selangor and one from Kuala Lumpur, were taken home aboard an AirAsia flight from the Seam Reap Airport and arrived at the KL International Airport 2 (klia2) on the same day.

Commenting further, Noor Rashid said if promises made by the company were not fulfilled, then it was a case of human trafficking.

He said initial investigations revealed the possibility of a local syndicate recruiting workers and handing them over to the outside syndicate operating in Cambodia. – Bernama

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