Police in Penang carried out two raids and uncovered a syndicate involved in promoting and operating online gambling activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Malaysia.- Police in Penang have uncovered an illegal syndicate that was carrying out online gambling activities<\/strong> and was generating profits of up to RM2.5m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The police conducted two raids and arrested 13 people, four men and five women in the first raid, and four local men in the second<\/strong>. According to officers, the syndicate had been operating for a year, promoting various online games through WeChat and Facebook, targeting customers in Australia and Bangladesh, and generating up to RM1m a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The illegal gambling hub rented two locations, a regular-looking office and a luxury condominium, to run their illegal operations, which included using the condominium as a call centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The syndicate leader, a 32-year-old woman, recruited workers with salaries ranging from RM2,000 to RM6,000 per month, and the workers also received commissions for each successful promotion to customers outside the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the raids, police seized computer equipment, 32 mobile phones, modems<\/strong>, notebooks, closed-circuit television cameras, and nine cars, all valued at over RM700,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those arrested have no criminal records<\/strong> and are currently on remand to assist in the investigation. The case is being investigated under Sections 4(1)(c) and 4(1)(g) of the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police in Penang carried out two raids and uncovered a syndicate involved in promoting and operating online gambling activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Police in Penang, Malaysia, have dismantled an illegal online gambling syndicate that operated for a year, generating up to RM2.5 million in profits by targeting customers in Australia and Bangladesh through social media. Thirteen individuals were arrested, and significant assets, including computer equipment and vehicles, were seized, highlighting ongoing challenges in cross-border regulatory enforcement against illicit iGaming operations.","focusai_entities":"Police, syndicate leader","focusai_location":"Malaysia, Penang, Australia, Bangladesh","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 (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cross-Border Enforcement Impact?","query":"What are the broader implications for cross-border regulatory enforcement and international cooperation given the syndicate's targeting of Australia and Bangladesh from Malaysia?"},{"label":"Black Market GGR Estimate?","query":"How does the reported RM2.5 million in illicit profits from this single syndicate inform estimates of the total black market GGR within the Southeast Asian and APAC regions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-777012491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012491","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=777012491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012492,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012491\/revisions\/777012492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}