Two Myanmar nationals have been arrested for forging UNHCR application forms

KOTA BARU, April 22 — Kelantan Immigration Department yesterday arrested two men from Myanmar in Kampung Padang Kala, Melor, suspected of being involved in a syndicate of falsifying application forms for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). produced.

Kelantan Immigration Department deputy director Ruzaana Mohamed said immigration officials recovered a laptop computer, a safe, a printer, a laminating machine, printing inks in different colors, three closed-circuit television cameras, a data drive unit and cash worth P100,000. have found. RM928 at the suspects’ house during the Sapu/Kutip operation.

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She said the two suspects, in their 20s, had used valid UNHCR cards and claimed ownership of all the seized equipment.

Immigration officials seized the suspects’ mobile phones containing copies of UNHCR receipts believed to be forged, as well as UNHCR card application forms used to unlawfully obtain UNHCR cards.

“The matter is being investigated under Section 55 D and Section 6(1) (c) of the Immigration Act 1959/63,” she said in a statement today. – Bernama