10 undocumented immigrants were discovered to have been hiding in a housing area for former leprosy patients at Sungai Buloh’s National Centre for Leprosy Control (PKKN).
Following an investigation by the Selangor Immigration Department, it was discovered that 10 undocumented Indonesian nationals – four men, five women, and a three-year old girl – had been trying to avoid the attention of law enforcement by living amongst lepers.
“They were apprehended for not possessing legal travel papers, and their work permits had lapsed,” Selangor Immigration deputy director of enforcement Hishamudin Badiyol Zuman told mStar today.
“The matter is being investigated under Section 6(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1959/63, and those arrested have been transferred to the Immigration Depot in Semenyih.”
Hishamudin did not discount the possibility of there being at least 150 undocumented immigrants living in the leper colony. Undocumented immigrants are suspected of using the leper colony’s relative cover to set up squatter homes where they can utilise the water and electric supply for free.
The leper colony opreates under the jurisdiction of the Sungai Buloh Hospital.
