In a Facebook post, Saifuddin said a picture of the Chinese citizen’s passport as well as his fake MyKad and Malaysian driver’s licence had been circulating in WhatsApp groups.

“This case happened in 2019. (Perikatan Nasional chairman) Muhyiddin Yassin was home minister at the time, but I’m confident he wasn’t involved in this.

“The national registration department (JPN) officer involved has already been arrested, probed and is now being tried in court.

“The ‘MyKad holder’ was also deported to his home country.

“As usual, some people are attacking the government without checking the facts.

“They’re happy as long as they can play up racial sentiments and get some political mileage,” said the minister.

In August 2019, Chinese national Wang Dequn was caught with a Malaysian passport at the Penang International Airport.

Two months later, he told the High Court that he obtained a Malaysian passport after agreeing to pay RM400,000 for it.

He also said he managed to get a MyKad and a driver’s licence for the money he paid.

The MyKad and driver’s licence bore the name “Ewe Chor Beng”.

Wang was testifying in the trial of JPN assistant director Faizul Arifin and five others charged with 32 counts of falsifying birth certificates and identity cards as part of a syndicate selling citizenships to Chinese nationals.

Wang was deported to China on Nov 13 after serving a three-month jail sentence.