Crackdown on errant foreign workers in KB
By Liza Mohd

Workers being ambushed at a house construction site in Jalan Maulana, KB

About 64 foreign construction workers were investigated following a raid yesterday morning conducted by nine Kuala Belait Immigration Officials at three construction sites within the area of KB town. A Thai man was issued with a special pass, after failing to produce documents relating to his employer when immigration raiding parties ambushed a housing construction site in Jalan Maulana.

Meanwhile, six men consisting of four Indians and two Indonesians were immediately detained after failing to provide identification cards or passports, while working at another housing construction site in Jalan Gates.

Construction workers inspected at a double storey shop construction site in Jalan Jaya Negara were able to produce relevant documents to prove their legal stay in Brunei.

The purposes of the raid codenamed "Operation Benteras 25" led by Chief Immigration Officer Sulaiman bin Hj Hidup, was to conduct inspections on residences and rented houses of the foreign workers and construction sites, to ensure that they did not breach the Immigration Act and Rules following previous arrest for offences such as overstaying, runaway workers and other related offences.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin