Kuala lumpur: The Immigration Department will work with Thai authorities to obtain detailed information on an alleged syndicate trafficking China nationals from Cambodia to Malaysia. Immigration director-general Datuk Zakaria Shaaban stated they are monitoring developments of the case, even though they have yet to receive any official report on such activities.

According to BERNAMA News Agency, Thai media outlets reported that Thai authorities arrested two individuals suspected of being masterminds of a ring trafficking China nationals from the Cambodian border to Malaysia through Thailand. During a raid on a resort in Na Mom district in Songkhla province, Thai authorities found six China nationals and a Myanmar national who were waiting to be smuggled into Malaysia to work in a scam syndicate.

Further investigations by Thai authorities revealed the involvement of four Thai nationals believed to be part of the syndicate. These individuals are suspected of arranging the journey of the immigrants from the Cambodia-Thai border to Hat Yai and onwards through to Malaysia.