The Immigration Department has been lauded for setting up a special committee to investigate the RM13.04 million cash found in an anti-vice raid in Sabah two days ago.
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed was confident with the special committee, the Immigration Department would be able to resolve the case as soon as possible.
“We (ministry) want to know whether this is an isolated case or part of a big syndicate that uses illegal immigrants for prostitution as it has to do with human trafficking,” he told reporters this morning.
Nur Jazlan said the discovery and seizure of RM13.04 million was a huge success for the Immigration Department in its operation to combat prostitution involving illegal immigrants in this country.
“This shows the large amount of money in the prostitution industry and it must be curbed.”
Immigration found the cash in a raid on a hotel in Kota Kinabalu on Friday (Nov 24), which also saw the arrest of 17 Filipino women, believed to be victims of prostitution syndicates.
