Sabah Immigration raided the unlicensed resort on Monday, finding the detainees had misused their social visit passes.

SEMPORNA: The Sabah Immigration Department detained seven Chinese nationals during an operation at a resort here on Monday (Nov 9) on suspicion of misusing their social visit passes to work at the premises.

Its director Sh Sitti Saleha Habib Yussof said 14 individuals, comprising nine Chinese nationals and five Malaysians, were inspected during the operation.

“Further investigations revealed that the resort was built on a 1.78 hectares of leased land and had not submitted any applications to employ expatriate workers.