{"id":777006997,"date":"2023-07-06T06:26:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T09:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777006997"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:20:13","slug":"malaysia-39-arrested-over-suspected-online-gambling-call-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysia-39-arrested-over-suspected-online-gambling-call-centre","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: 39 arrested over suspected online gambling call centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Sabah raided an operation at a shopping complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia.- Police in Sabah, Malaysia, have arrested 39 people. including Malaysians and foreign nationals, over an alleged online gambling call centre. The raid took place on the seventh floor of a shopping complex on Jalan Pintas in Penampang. Three rooms are suspected of being used as a call centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabah police commissioner,<strong>\u00a0Datuk Jauteh Dikun<\/strong>, said 20 women and 19 men were arrested. Police seized 74 computer monitors, 38 central processing units and 22 mobile phones. According to The Straits Times, the syndicate had been operating for more than six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say workers were receiving monthly salaries of RM1,500, paid through bank accounts after responding to a job advertisement on Facebook offering customer service positions. The case is now under investigation and falls under the jurisdiction of Section 4(1)(g) of the Open House Gambling Act 1953.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week ago, police in Kuala Lumpur <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysia-13-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-online-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">arrested 13 foreign nationals<\/a>, including five women, at two apartment units in Jalan Kuchai Lama for alleged involvement in managing and promoting gambling.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/meta-to-work-with-malaysia-to-tackle-online-scams-including-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">Meta to work with Malaysia to tackle online scams, including gambling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Sabah raided an operation at a shopping complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19195,"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 Sabah have dismantled an illicit online gambling call centre, arresting 39 individuals and seizing significant operational equipment. The syndicate, which operated for over six months, recruited staff via social media for purported customer service roles, highlighting persistent challenges in regulatory enforcement and the evolving tactics of illegal operations within the iGaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Datuk Jauteh Dikun, The Straits Times, Meta","focusai_location":"Malaysia, Sabah, Penampang, Kuala Lumpur","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), affiliate_publisher (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Impact","query":"What specific enhancements to Malaysia's regulatory framework or enforcement strategies are anticipated following these high-profile raids to deter future illicit iGaming operations?"},{"label":"Financial Intermediary Scrutiny","query":"How are financial institutions in Malaysia enhancing their AML protocols to identify and interdict bank accounts used for salary payments by illegal gambling syndicates?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777006997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006997","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=777006997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777007004,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006997\/revisions\/777007004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777006997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777006997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777006997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}