The commission released its findings in a report today after completing its investigation under Section 27(4) of the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission Act 2009.

The EAIC said in a statement that it discovered the abuse towards the detainees began between 2020 and 2021 when they were initially placed at the Wawasan Negara camp in Langkawi before being transferred to various immigration depots, including Bidor.

“A few immigration officers at the Bidor depot, including two who were previously stationed at the Langkawi camp, were found to have engaged in acts of extreme violence, physical and mental abuse towards the Rohingya detainees, causing harm to them.”

In addition to violence and abuse, the commission’s findings also cited negligence by immigration staff, inadequate monitoring as well as the poor infrastructure at the Bidor depot as contributing factors to the escape.

EAIC said it would refer its recommendations for disciplinary action to the immigration department’s disciplinary unit and would submit suggestions for infrastructure improvements to the department’s director-general.

It added that a police report has been lodged over the violence and abuse experienced by the undocumented migrants detained at both the Bidor and Langkawi centres.