A 26-year-old Indian national has been charged in Singapore for employing and harbouring 13 immigration offenders from India after their visit passes had expired, authorities said.
Riken Kanojiya, along with two Singaporeans were charged on May 21 for immigration offences, the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a statement on Thursday.
Riken was charged for harbouring 13 other Indian immigration offenders, aged between 19 and 44 years old, without conducting due diligence checks to ensure that they held valid passes to remain in Singapore, the statement said.
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The immigration offenders had remained unlawfully in Singapore after the expiry of their visit passes, it said.
On March 3, ICA officers raided a flat in Singapore. In the flat, they found 13 Indian nationals who had all overstayed in the island-state after their visit passes had expired. The offenders comprised 11 men and two women aged between 19 and 44 years old.
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