Pakistani man nabbed for using immigration dept logo on vehicle

 The vehicle owner admitted to installing the logo and directional warning lights for personal use, and claimed he did not know this was an offence.

Screenshots from a video showing a Pakistani man allegedly using the immigration department’s official logo and warning lights on a vehicle.

PUTRAJAYA:

The immigration department detained a Pakistani man believed to have used the department’s official logo and warning lights on a vehicle, less than 24 hours after a video of the incident went viral on social media.

Immigration director-general Zakaria Shaaban said the man was detained in a special operation at 4.30pm yesterday at PV3 Platinum Hill Condominium, Setapak, following intelligence gathered from the video showing a vehicle bearing the immigration department logo being used by a foreign national.

He said an inspection of the premises also led to the detention of an Indonesian woman who had overstayed in the country, as well as the discovery of two Indonesian passports believed to belong to other individuals, which were in the man’s possession.

“Preliminary investigations into the individual in the viral video found that the video was recorded in April 2025 and was only uploaded as a WhatsApp status by the individual’s wife on Aug 7.

“The individual’s wife is in Indonesia, and the video was uploaded while she was there,” he said in a statement today.

Zakaria said the Pakistani man was detained for allegedly committing offences under Section 12(1)(f) of the Passports Act 1966 and the Immigration Act 1959/63, while the Indonesian woman was detained under Section 15(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1959/63.

Following the arrests, the operation team traced a Toyota Hilux, believed to be the vehicle featured in the video, to a car wash at Jalan Kuching, Kuala Lumpur.

Zakaria said the vehicle’s owner, also a Pakistani national, was arrested along with eight other foreign workers comprising four Bangladeshis, three Pakistanis and an Indian.

The vehicle owner is being investigated under Section 55B of the Immigration Act 1959/63, while the eight workers are suspected of offences under Section 6(1)(c) of the same law for lacking valid travel documents.

Zakaria said the vehicle owner admitted to installing the logo and directional warning lights for personal use, without any official purpose, and claimed he was unaware that this was an offence. He also claimed that the logo and lights were removed before the video went viral. - FMT