JOHOR BARU - THE Home Ministry is still assessing the investigation papers relating to the nude squat incident involving two Singaporean women here on June 9, said Immigration Department director-general Datuk Alias Ahmad.'We have to allow the ministry time to study the report in order to make an official statement on it,' he said on Sunday, adding that he could not disclose other information on the inquiry.
The incident occurred after two Singaporean women drove past an unmanned booth at the Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex on June 9 and failed to get their passports checked.
Realising their mistake, the women then allegedly made a U-turn on the Causeway and admitted their mistake to officers there.
The officers, however, jugged the women for several hours at the checkpoint and later brought them to the Pekan Nenas detention centre for investigations.
At the centre, the women were allegedly told to strip, perform 10 squats and locked away for the night before being released at about 5pm the following day. The women submitted written statements to the Singapore Foreign Ministry which forwarded them to the Malaysian High Commission.