Malaysia has permanently scrapped the Visa-on-Arrival (VOA) facility offered to visitors from India and other seven countries, saying it was open to abuse. This move came after 40,000 Indian tourists went missing from the country. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said that the decision to permanently scrap the VOA facility to citizens from eight countries was taken at the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Foreign Workers and Illegal Immigrants. The VOA facility was withdrawn for Indian nationals a couple of years ago after Malaysia complained that many visitors had stayed on illegally after the expiry of their tourist visas.Earlier, during an interaction with a group of journalists from India in January, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak had said that Indian nationals have gone missing after entering the country through the VOA facility.