Datuk Jonathan bin Yasin, deputy minister of home affairs, has revealed that police arrested 7,755 people between January to August 2021 for involvement in illegal gambling activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Malaysia.- Authorities in Malaysia arrested 7,755 people <\/strong>for involvement in illegal gambling operations in the first eight months of the year<\/strong>.\u00a0Datuk Jonathan bin Yasin<\/strong>, deputy minister of home affairs, said 7,374 raids had been carried out between January to August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to The Star, Yasin was asked whether increasing special lottery draws could help curb illegal gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yasin said: “Based on my personal view, whether it can increase or reduce the number of cases related to illegal gambling, it needs a further study so we can truly identify the reasons behind it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said licenced gambling activities under the domain of the Finance Ministry were not allowed to operate during\u00a0the Movement Control Order<\/strong>\u00a0(MCO) imposed by the government when the Covid-19 pandemic started. However, he noted that illegal gambling syndicates still operated, including the drawing of public lotteries coordinated by foreigners from Singapore, Cambodia and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In September,\u00a0police arrested 5 people<\/strong>\u00a0during a series of raids related to alleged\u00a0illegal gambling activities\u00a0<\/strong>in the Padawan District.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first raid was carried out at a cafe and ended with the arrest of a woman suspected of being involved in an illegal online gambling operation<\/strong>. Police seized a mobile phone. During the second raid, a man was arrested. He was found with a piece of paper that, according to police, contained login details and passwords for illegal gambling websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The third and fourth raids took place at restaurants and ended with the arrests of two men suspected of gambling on illegal websites. The fifth and last raid was at a house where\u00a0a man was arrested for illegally selling lottery tickets in the district<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to The Borneo Post, during the last raid, police seized an amount of cash, a portable printer, nine rolls of paper, and betting numbers, which were printed on 16 pieces of paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n5 arrested for illegal gambling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n