Police in Jalan Song have conducted a series of raids and dismantled two alleged online gambling call centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Malaysia.- Police have busted\u00a0two alleged illegal online gambling call centres<\/strong>\u00a0in a Jalan Song apartment. According to officers,\u00a0the illegal gambling hubs had made transactions worth about RM405,000. <\/strong>During the raids, police arrested eight Indonesian men, between the ages of 15 and 30, who were believed to be operators of a gambling call centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kuching police chief ACP Ahsmon Bajah told The Borneo Post those arrested had been working there since September and October last year. He said they were paid between RM1,300 and RM1,500 each, including bonuses based on monthly profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the police, some of the Indonesian men didn’t have valid travel documents. Ahsmon Bajah said those arrested have been detained for 14 days starting to assist in the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yesterday it was also revealed police conducted two raids that ended with the\u00a0detention of 17 people<\/a>\u00a0who were allegedly involved in illegal gambling activities.\u00a0And two weeks ago,\u00a0police detained 10 alleged members of gambling syndicates at two venues near Klang<\/a>. They are accused of conducting online gambling transactions worth nearly RM5m a month with more than 3,000 players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police in Jalan Song have conducted a series of raids and dismantled two alleged online gambling call centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19864,"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 have dismantled two illegal online gambling call centres in Kuching, arresting eight individuals and uncovering transactions valued at RM405,000. This follows recent enforcement actions near Klang, where operations allegedly processed RM5 million monthly from over 3,000 players, highlighting ongoing challenges with illicit gambling activities.","focusai_entities":"Ahsmon Bajah, Police","focusai_location":"Malaysia, Jalan Song, Kuching, Klang","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Illegal GGR Malaysia?","query":"What is the estimated total GGR of the illegal online gambling market in Malaysia, and how does this compare to the regulated sector's potential?"},{"label":"AML Vulnerabilities Exploited?","query":"What specific AML and KYC vulnerabilities are exploited by these illegal call centre operations, and what enhanced inter-agency strategies are being deployed to counter them?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-26877","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\/26877","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=26877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26899,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26877\/revisions\/26899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}