KOTA KINABALU: Immigration personnel have detained 28 individuals discovered with out legitimate journey paperwork in a raid on a nightclub in Penampang close to right here on Wednesday ((*28*) 8) evening.
Those detained included employees and visitor relations officers (GROs) of the leisure outlet in addition to patrons.
A Sabah Immigration Department spokesman mentioned the raiding workforce had earlier screened 75 of the nightclub’s staff and clients in the course of the operation at Koidupan city at 11.40pm.
Following the examine, 28 of them failed to provide legitimate paperwork or had been discovered to have violated the phrases of their go to passes.
“Those arrested comprised 20 Philippine and eight Indonesian nationals,” the spokesman mentioned when contacted on Thursday ((*28*) 9).
He additionally mentioned 22 of the detainees had been girls believed to be working on the nightclub.
“They were detained for violating Section 6(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1959/63 (for not having valid travel passes) and Regulation 39(b) of the Immigration Regulations 1963 (for breaching conditions of their travel permit).”
