{"id":19193,"date":"2021-06-18T15:19:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T15:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=19193"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:24:14","slug":"malaysia-6-arrested-in-raid-on-gambling-call-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysia-6-arrested-in-raid-on-gambling-call-centre","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: 6 arrested in raid on gambling call centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police have made six arrests in a raid on an alleged illegal gambling call centre in Taman Senggi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia.- Police in Taman Senggi, Jalan Bau-Kuching, have arrested four men and two women in a raid on an alleged illegal gambling call centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to officers, those arrested were<strong>\u00a0running online gambling including betting on football<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Borneo Post reported that those arrested are aged between 20 and 27 years and are being investigated under the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those arrested were<strong>\u00a0two Indonesian nationals<\/strong>\u00a0who are being investigated under the Immigration Act 1959\/63. Police seized mobile phones, computer equipment and laptops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The installation of\u00a0<strong>illegal gambling call centres in Malaysia is fairly common <\/strong>as are police raids to dismantle the centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week ago, police\u00a0<strong>arrested five men and a woman who were trying to cross the border<\/strong>\u00a0to run an\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysia-6-arrested-over-illegal-online-gambling\">illegal gambling operation<\/a>. The\u00a0<strong>illegal gambling centre was operating on a 24-hour basis\u00a0<\/strong>with people working in shifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those detained who are aged between 18 and 35,<strong>&nbsp;allegedly rented an apartment at Klebang Kecil<\/strong>&nbsp;to run the illegal gambling operation centre and had been living there for the past three weeks.&nbsp;<strong>Police seized electronic devices<\/strong>&nbsp;during the raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, a similar raid was carried out in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur. Police arrested eight people for a suspected\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysia-8-busted-in-raid-on-gambling-operation\">illegal gambling operation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have made six arrests in a raid on an alleged illegal gambling call centre in Taman Senggi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Malaysian law enforcement has conducted multiple raids on illicit gambling call centres, resulting in 19 arrests across Taman Senggi, Klebang Kecil, and Cheras, Kuala Lumpur. These operations, frequently involving foreign nationals and 24-hour shifts, underscore the persistent regulatory compliance challenges and the ongoing efforts to combat illegal online betting activities under existing gaming and immigration statutes.","focusai_entities":"Police, Indonesian nationals","focusai_location":"Malaysia, Taman Senggi, Jalan Bau-Kuching, Klebang Kecil, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Leakage Impact?","query":"What is the estimated GGR leakage from the legitimate Malaysian iGaming market attributable to these persistent illegal gambling operations, and what enhanced enforcement strategies are being considered to mitigate this economic impact?"},{"label":"Transnational Enforcement?","query":"Given the involvement of foreign nationals, what specific cross-border intelligence sharing and collaborative enforcement mechanisms are being deployed or developed to address the transnational nature of these sophisticated illegal gambling networks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-19193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19225,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19193\/revisions\/19225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}