
The Immigration Department says it has the right to restrict Malaysians who has shamed the country from travelling abroad. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, October 18, 2015.
The Immigration Department will ban those who have disgraced the nation and deemed as a threat to the national security from leaving the country, its director-general Datuk Seri Mustafa Ibrahim said.
He said the department had powers to blacklist such individuals, reported The Star today.
“We are also in the verge of blacklisting those who are believed to be involved in human trafficking and other crimes,” the newspaper quoted him saying at a press conference after launching the East Coast shooting training programme yesterday.
Mustafa said these individuals should not blame the department and pretend to be surprised if their passports were blacklisted as they knew the reason.
“The department does not simply blacklist anyone’s passports as it wishes,” Mustafa was reported as saying. Read more