Since the beginning of this year, police in Malaysia have arrested 25,643 people in 17,382 raids related to illegal gambling operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Malaysia.-\u00a0Datuk Seri Abd Jalil Hassan<\/strong>, director of the Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department, has said that police conducted a total of 17,382 raids involving 25,643 arrests between January and the end of October. Police have seized more than RM$8m in cash and over 18,000 computers, mobile phones and laptops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hassan said the most common illegal activity was public lottery houses operating without licences. A total of 5,561 raids were carried out related to this activity. Meanwhile, 6,321 raids were related to\u00a0online gambling<\/a>, 535 to betting, 407 to\u00a0indoor gambling<\/a>, 294 to outdoor gambling and 264 targetted illegal call centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2020,\u00a0police conducted 15,958 raids and 26,656 people were arrested<\/strong>. Again, raids related to public lotteries without a licence were the most frequent, with 8,324 in 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hassan said there was an increase in online gambling activities\u00a0due to the easy availability of Internet on mobile devices and due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since the beginning of this year, police in Malaysia have arrested 25,643 people in 17,382 raids related to illegal gambling operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19144,"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 police have conducted 17,382 raids and arrested 25,643 individuals for illegal gambling operations between January and October, seizing over RM$8m. The most prevalent illegal activities were unlicensed public lotteries and online gambling, with the latter seeing an increase attributed to mobile internet accessibility and the COVID-19 pandemic.","focusai_entities":"Datuk Seri Abd Jalil Hassan, Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department","focusai_location":"Malaysia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.85), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.88), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Illegal GGR Impact?","query":"What is the estimated Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) of the illegal gambling market in Malaysia, and how does it compare to the potential GGR of a fully regulated iGaming market?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Evolution?","query":"Given the persistent challenge of illegal online gambling, what specific legislative or technological enhancements are Malaysian authorities considering to strengthen regulatory compliance and governance frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-24225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225","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=24225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24241,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225\/revisions\/24241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}