42-year-old Indian national R. Pandiarajan died of heart attack at the airport in Malaysia on January 29th.
Pandiarajan, who hailed from Tamil Nadu in India, was working in Malaysia for 15 years using another man’s passport.
Malaysia Global Rescue Humanity president T. Kamalanathan told media he received information about the death.
He says when he saw the body, he realized that person was not what the passport said.
The group contacted the man’s family in Tamil Nadu and confirmed that the deceased was indeed Pandiarajan.
The group, working to help overseas Tamil people who work in Malaysia, then collected Pandiarajan’s original identification documents and contacted the authorities.
The arrangements are being made to repatriate the body to India.
Malaysian Indians are the 5th largest community of overseas Indians in the world. They are 7% of Malaysian population as of 2016, which is the third largest ethnic group after Malay and Chinese.
