MELAKA: The owner of a chilli plantation in Nyalas, here was fined RM80,000 by the the Illegal Immigrants Court, Machap Umboo, Alor Gajah, here for hiring four immigrants without legal permit since 2009.
Melaka Immigration Department director, Kamalludin Ismail said Teo Aik Tan, 46, was fined RM20,000 for each staff and 24 months’ imprisonment if he failed to settle the fines within the time given under Section 55B (1) of the Immigration Act 1959/63.
He said the three Myanmar men and a woman, aged between 20 and 30, were arrested at the plantation on May 20, 2010 and they were believed to have been working for the past one year.
“We had arrested the owner of the plantation a month after the arrest of the four and prosecution started in August the same year,” he said when contacted by Bernama here yesterday.
He said the four illegal immigrants were jailed for three months before they were repatriated home.
Meanwhile, he said the court had also imposed a jail sentence of between two to three months on five Cambodians for overstaying in the country.
Kamalludin said the three men and two women aged between 30 and 40 were nabbed during a raid on two separate houses in Tanjung Minyak, here two weeks ago. — Bernama