{"id":777004907,"date":"2023-05-04T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T16:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004907"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:18:48","slug":"singapore-110-investigated-for-vice-gambling-and-unlicensed-moneylending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-110-investigated-for-vice-gambling-and-unlicensed-moneylending","title":{"rendered":"Singapore: 110 investigated for vice, gambling and unlicensed moneylending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A crackdown in Singapore has led to the investigation of 110 suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore.- Authorities in Singapore have reported that <strong>110 suspects are under investigation<\/strong>&nbsp;following a crackdown on vice, gambling, and unlicensed moneylending.&nbsp;Law enforcement officers from the Tanglin Police Division, Criminal Investigation Department, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority, and Health Sciences Authority carried out a joint operation between April 26 and 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers seized cash, computers, electronic hardware, e-vaporisers, and gambling paraphernalia. Those arrested, aged between 17 to 70 years old, are suspected for various illicit activities, including vice and unlawful gambling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 48 women are being investigated for vice. They were apprehended after raids on massage establishments and commercial units in Toa Payoh, Bukit Timah, River Valley and Sin Ming Road. Meanwhile, 11 people are being investigated for <strong>alleged involvement in illegal bookmaking<\/strong>, with $2,022 in cash and mobile phones seized in raids in Bishan and Toa Payoh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another <strong>19 suspects were allegedly involved in remote gaming <\/strong>at two offices in Burn Road in the MacPherson area. Officers retrieved more than $5,000 worth of cash, computers and electronic hardware facilitating remote gaming.&nbsp;Finally, 26 people were brought in for investigation for alleged involvement in&nbsp;<strong>unlicensed moneylending activities<\/strong>&nbsp;and for operating as money mules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-12-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore: 12 arrested for alleged illegal gambling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crackdown in Singapore has led to the investigation of 110 suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Singaporean authorities have concluded a multi-agency operation, investigating 110 suspects for illicit activities including vice, illegal gambling, and unlicensed moneylending. The crackdown, which involved raids across multiple locations, resulted in the seizure of cash, electronics, and gambling paraphernalia, underscoring the nation's commitment to market integrity and regulatory enforcement.","focusai_entities":"Tanglin Police Division, Criminal Investigation Department, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority, Health Sciences Authority","focusai_location":"Singapore, Toa Payoh, Bukit Timah, River Valley, Sin Ming Road, Bishan, Burn Road, MacPherson","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR?","query":"What is the estimated impact of these illegal operations on the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) of licensed operators in Singapore, and how might this crackdown influence future market projections?"},{"label":"Regulatory Gaps?","query":"Do these enforcement actions indicate potential gaps in current regulatory frameworks or surveillance capabilities that allowed such extensive illicit operations, particularly remote gaming and illegal bookmaking, to proliferate?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777004907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-illegal-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004907","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=777004907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004920,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004907\/revisions\/777004920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}