By Liza Mohd
Foreign workers being inspected during the raid.
A Filipino man and woman were
both issued special passes after failing to provide proper
documents to prove their stay in Brunei was valid, following a
raid on Wednesday night by nine officers from the Kuala Belait
Immigration Department.
The Soon Lee Farm and Machinery
work quarters in Kg Sg Liang was among the targets of the raid.
However no workers at the said place were caught breaching the
Immigration rules.
A rented house occupied by
foreign workers along the Lumut by-pass was also inspected, but
the workers managed to prove that their stay in the country was
legal.
The Filipino man and woman were
caught in a house at Jalan Maulana, Kuala Belait and were both
issued special passes, pending settlement of their cases.
A total of 19 workers were
inspected during the raid in Kuala Belait, which started at
about 9.30 pm and ended after midnight.
The purposes of the raid led by
Chief Immigration Officer, Awg Sulaiman bin Hj Hidup was to
conduct inspections at the residences and rented houses of
foreign workers. This was to ensure that they did not breach the
Immigration Act and Rules following previous arrests for
offences such as overstaying, runaway workers and other related
offences.
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