A total of 1,822 Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme participants left the country between 2015 and 2019 without coming back.

Participants from China made up the largest proportion with 920 who never returned to Malaysia, followed by Japan (214), South Korea (201) and Bangladesh (134).

This was revealed in the Auditor-General's Report 2019 Series 2 which highlighted the lack of proper monitoring mechanisms in...