The Immigration Department of Malaysia has arrested 29 people including Bangladeshis involved in remittance smuggling through hundi.
Eleven Bangladeshis, five Indians, eight Indonesian men, and two women were arrested in special drives in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor on April 2 and 3. However, the immigration police did not disclose their names yet.
On Tuesday, the country's Director-General of Immigration Ruslin Jusoh said raids were carried out at 10 locations to catch unlicensed hundi traders from India, Indonesia, and Bangladesh.
Twenty-nine foreigners were arrested in raids conducted at three different locations by the Immigration Department and the Intelligence Department in collaboration with Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), he said.
Hundi traders sell electronic products at restaurants, grocery stores, cosmetics outlets, and kiosks to avoid arrest and entice expatriates from Malaysia to send money to the country, he added.
RM 300,527, mobile phones, record books, and documents for sending remittances to different countries were seized in the raid.
The arrestees have been kept at Simonia Immigration Depot pending further investigation.
