Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Class I Immigration Office of North Jakarta has deported two Chinese nationals, identified by the initials ZM and ZY, for posing as investors operating fictitious companies to obtain stay permits.

"The two foreigners were immediately deported to their country of origin since they had no sponsors for a stay permit," said Widya Anusa Brata, head of the office's Supervision and Immigration Enforcement Section, in Jakarta on Wednesday.

He noted that the decision was made after the Ministry of Investment confirmed the companies they claimed to own were fraudulent.

According to Brata, ZM and ZY were deported via Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, on Thursday (June 26). "They have been barred from re-entering Indonesia for six months," he added.

Earlier that day, head of the immigration office Rendra Mauliansyah reported that his team arrested the two foreigner in Penjaringan, North Jakarta, for alleged violations of immigration rules.

He highlighted that ZM held a limited stay permit (ITAS) as an investor and owner of a fictitious company called PT LSTTI, noting that the deportee claimed that the company had been registered with the Ministry of Law.

According to ZM, PT LSTTI was founded in April this year. However, he failed to produce the required documents, and the company had no operations or employees.

A follow-up investigation revealed that PT LSTTI was actually a virtual office registered since November 18 last year, with no business or administrative activity on record.

Meanwhile, ZY, also an ITAS holder, claimed to own PT DHI, an ice cream and steel distributor allegedly established in 2022 in Pinangsia, West Jakarta. Suspicion arose when the suspect could not specify the number of employees working at the company.

It was later discovered that the listed business address was a deserted four-story shophouse.



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