Six Indians deported

Six Indians deported

JAKARTA (JP): The immigration office has deported six Indians
earlier arrested for entering Indonesia using forged visas,
allegedly using the service of an illegal international
syndicate.

Immigration office spokesman Mursanudin Ghani said on Tuesday
that the six deported Indians were among the eight Indians nabbed
from their hiding place in Depok, West Java, last week.

He identified the six as Sharminder Singh, Hartup Singh, Iqbal
Singh, Gurdial Singh, Amardep Singh and Gurjit Singh. They were
deported on Sunday.

The other two -- Avtar Singh and Daljit Singh -- were still in
quarantine, awaiting deportation, Mursanudin said in a statement.

Ghani explained that after intensive investigation, it was
discovered that they were brought into Indonesia with the help of
a syndicate transporting illegal immigrants from developing
countries to developed countries such as Australia, Britain, the
U.S. or South Korea using Indonesia as a transit point.

"Avtar Singh is a member of the syndicate and he works
together with PT Mina Panca Sejahtera, PT Deha Cemerlang and PT
Samudera Surya Abadi which forge travel documents by using
Indonesian passports and changing their photos," he said. (bby)