Audit report: Immigration Dept loses RM81.69m in unclaimed penalties

Weaknesses in terms of monitoring and agreements that are not very clear have resulted in losses for the Immigration Department amounting to RM81.69 million due to penalties not imposed on a company that handled the online collection of Temporary Employment Visit Pass (PLKS) revenue.

According to the Auditor-General's Report Year 2020 published today, it was found that the Immigration Department has failed to impose penalties for late delivery of PLKS stickers amounting to RM73.89 million as well as delayed remittance penalties and penalties for printing the stickers wrongly, amounting to RM0.49 million and RM7.31 million, respectively.

“The audit also found that...