Four held for faking Mahathir's signature

Four held for faking Mahathir's signature

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysian police have arrested four men who faked documents and forged the signature of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to bring in thousands of illegal foreign workers, a report said on Sunday.

The four are said to have duped several bosses into parting with large sums on the pretext of supplying legal foreign employees, the Sun newspaper said.

Police Superintendent Adnan Shahbudin was quoted as saying the four were detained last week. He said they told bosses the government had appointed them to provide foreign labor.

The paper said police recovered a stack of documents, headed notepaper which purportedly came from the prime minister's department and rubber stamps and seals.The group reportedly brought in an average of 500 workers a month over the past two years.