{"id":777014200,"date":"2024-03-22T09:27:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T12:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777014200"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:47:51","slug":"malaysia-84-it-workers-arrested-for-allegedly-building-online-gambling-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysia-84-it-workers-arrested-for-allegedly-building-online-gambling-platforms","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: 84 IT workers arrested for allegedly building online gambling platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The arrests were made in One City in Jalan USJ 25\/1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia.- Police in Malaysia have arrested <strong>84 IT professionals <\/strong>allegedly hired to build online gambling platforms for illegal overseas operators. The arrests were made in a a raid at a unit in One City in Jalan USJ 25\/1. Police say the workers were paid between RM5,000 and RM20,000 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The syndicate&#8217;s operations allegedly extended to Thailand, Brazil, China and Vietnam.\u00a0Selangor police chief comm<strong> Datuk Hussein Omar Khan<\/strong> told The Star that a call centre associated with the syndicate had been operational since the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/malaysia-8-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Malaysia: 8 arrested for alleged illegal gambling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrests were made in One City in Jalan USJ 25\/1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26852,"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 apprehended 84 IT professionals implicated in developing illicit online gambling platforms for international syndicates. The operation, based in Malaysia, reportedly supported illegal iGaming activities extending across Thailand, Brazil, China, and Vietnam, highlighting a significant cross-border enforcement action against unregulated market infrastructure.","focusai_entities":"Datuk Hussein Omar Khan","focusai_location":"Malaysia, One City, Thailand, Brazil, China, Vietnam","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), affiliate_publisher (0.7), tech_data (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Syndicate's Funding Source?","query":"What intelligence is available regarding the funding mechanisms and ultimate beneficial owners of this international syndicate, and how do these illicit financial flows impact global AML efforts?"},{"label":"Regulatory Cooperation Impact?","query":"How will this multi-jurisdictional enforcement action influence future cross-border regulatory cooperation and intelligence sharing among iGaming authorities in Asia and Latin America?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777014200","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\/777014200","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=777014200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014212,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014200\/revisions\/777014212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}