JEMPOL: Twelve foreign workers have been slapped with a RM1,500 compound each for violating the Covid-19 prevention procedures here, said district police chief Supt Hoo Chang Hook.
He said the workers from India and Bangladesh and aged between 25 and 47 had failed to observe physical distancing in a lorry.
They were also being probed for breaching the inter-district travel rule after they failed to produce a police permit letter.
They allegedly committed the offence at a roadblock along KM1, Jalan Rompin-Pasir Besar in Gemas near here on Monday evening.
Supt Hoo said the 52-year-old driver and another foreigner who failed to produce identification were also detained.