Editor's Note: On July 1, 2019, Albert Tei was granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) by the Semenyih Sessions Court.

The owner of Maxim Birdnest factory has been charged with employing 153 foreign workers without valid passes, more than seven months after a multi-agency raid on its premise in Klang.

Sources confirmed with Malaysiakini that the factory owner was charged under Section 55B of the Immigration Act 1959/63 at the Magistrate's Court in Sepang.

“The 'Datuk' claimed trial. He has been freed on court’s bail,” said the source, who is familiar with the investigation...