(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) – Malaysian Police have crippled a syndicate using its country as a transit nation to smuggle Sri Lankan immigrants to Europe with the arrest of 11 individuals, The Star Online reported.
Those arrested in the Police operations at the Customs and Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) complex in Padang Besar, Perlis, around the Klang Valley and Kuala Lumpur on 27 May, comprising 8 Sri Lankan and 3 Malaysian citizens.
Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador said the syndicate, with an international network across Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Europe, had been operating since the middle of 2018.
The culprits were attempting to smuggle out a Sri Lankan boy using Malaysian travel documents via the Padang Besar, Perlis, border to Thailand and then to Europe.
