Police officers cut the electricity supply of three commercial premises and eight residential houses in Kuching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Malaysia.- Police have\u00a0cut the electricity supply <\/strong>of three commercial premises and eight residential houses that were allegedly being used to run illegal gambling operations. Kuching police chief ACP Ahsmon Bajah\u00a0<\/strong>told The Borneo Post that the owners of the premises affected must write to the district police chief to request permission to restore power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the measure was crucial in tackling the growing number of illegal online gambling operations in the region. Since January, there have been 40 raids targeting illegal online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In March, police joined forces with Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) to cut off power to\u00a0eight illegal gambling hubs<\/a>\u00a0in Kuala Lumpur. Police have worked with electricity companies to cut the electricity of illegal gambling hubs<\/a> for several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police officers cut the electricity supply of three commercial premises and eight residential houses in Kuching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17082,"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, in collaboration with Tenaga Nasional Berhad, are intensifying efforts against illegal online gambling operations by severing electricity supply to implicated commercial and residential premises. This measure, recently implemented in Kuching and Kuala Lumpur, aims to disrupt the operational infrastructure of illicit gaming hubs. Since January, 40 raids have targeted illegal online gambling, underscoring a sustained enforcement drive.","focusai_entities":"Kuching police, ACP Ahsmon Bajah, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB)","focusai_location":"Kuching, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Enforcement Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected impact of these intensified enforcement actions on the overall GGR and NGR of the Malaysian iGaming market, particularly concerning the shift from black market to potential regulated channels?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Efficacy","query":"How do these operational disruptions, specifically targeting infrastructure, integrate into Malaysia's broader regulatory compliance and governance frameworks for combating illicit gambling, and what long-term efficacy is anticipated?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-31571","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\/31571","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=31571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31576,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571\/revisions\/31576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}