KL, Canberra to curb people-smuggling

KL, Canberra to curb people-smuggling

MALAYSIA: Kuala Lumpur and Canberra have agreed to increase efforts to stamp out people-smuggling and drug trafficking, reports said on Friday.

The two countries were concerned that Malaysia was used as a transit point en route to Australia, Malaysian Deputy Home Minister Chor Chee Heung was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times.

Chor said however that Malaysia was not facing a serious problem as a "launch pad" for trafficking syndicates due to close cooperation between the two countries.

He said Australian immigration officers would exchange data with their Malaysian counterparts at airports to detect forged passports. --AFP