{"id":26160,"date":"2022-01-11T10:40:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=26160"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:22:36","slug":"malaysia-22-arrested-for-illegal-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysia-22-arrested-for-illegal-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: 22 arrested for illegal online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities in Kuching carried out a raid and busted three online gambling call centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malaysia.- Officers in Kuching, Malaysia, confirmed&nbsp;<strong>a total of 22 people were arrested<\/strong>&nbsp;during a series of raids at three online gambling call centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those arrested are aged between 20 and 30 years and police also revealed among them&nbsp;<strong>there were 17 foreigners.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities told The Borneo Post: &#8220;The workers were hired to promote illegal gambling websites, either by calling their customers or using mobile applications such as WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat and Facebook.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the first raid, police arrested four locals and three foreigners. The second raid ended with eight foreigners arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third and final raid was carried out at a residential flat where six foreigners and a local woman were arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the raids,<strong>&nbsp;police also seized computers, modems and equipment<\/strong>&nbsp;to carry out illegal gambling activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last December,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysia-5-arrested-for-illegal-online-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">police arrested five Indonesian<\/a>&nbsp;men who were acting as credit top-up and online gambling credit withdrawal operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the raid, police seized laptops, mobile phones, wireless modems and a tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Datuk Seri Abd Jalil Hassan<\/strong>, director of the Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department, said\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysia-25643-arrested-for-illegal-gambling-in-first-10-months-of-2021\">police had conducted a total of 17,382 raids<\/a>\u00a0involving 25,643 arrests between January and the end of October, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Kuching carried out a raid and busted three online gambling call centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"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 authorities in Kuching conducted raids on three illegal online gambling call centres, leading to 22 arrests, including 17 foreign nationals. The operations involved promoting illicit gambling websites via various communication channels, with police seizing computers and related equipment. This action underscores Malaysia's ongoing efforts to combat illegal gambling, evidenced by a significant number of raids and arrests in 2021.","focusai_entities":"Datuk Seri Abd Jalil Hassan, Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department, The Borneo Post","focusai_location":"Kuching, Malaysia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.75), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.85), investor_analyst (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Regulated Market","query":"What is the estimated GGR impact of these illegal operations on Malaysia's potential regulated iGaming market, and how do these enforcement actions influence the timeline for formal regulatory frameworks?"},{"label":"Cross-Border Enforcement","query":"Given the arrest of 17 foreigners, what cross-border intelligence sharing or international cooperation mechanisms are being leveraged by Malaysian authorities to dismantle these illicit networks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-26160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/26160","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=26160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26164,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26160\/revisions\/26164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}