Police in Kuala Lumpur have arrested 29 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Malaysia.- Police in Kuala Lumpur have carried out 21 raids and made 29 arrests for alleged illegal gambling. Among those arrested were seven foreigners. Police seized 31 mobile phones, 20 tablets, nine modems, and RM2,378 in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kuala Lumpur police chief, Datuk Rusdi Mohd Isa<\/strong> told Harian Metro that raids took place at snooker halls, some of which hid gambling operations on the upper floors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elsewhere in Malaysia, police in Perak say they conducted\u00a01,369 raids related to illegal gambling\u00a0<\/strong>between January and September. These led to\u00a01,652\u00a0<\/strong>arrests, while police seized RM$1,296 in cash and 1,022 electronic devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The raids targeted various\u00a0illegal gambling activities<\/strong>, including online, indoors and outdoors. Police submitted 91 requests to local authorities for the cancellation of business permits. So far, 14 licences have been revoked, while 77 are awaiting responses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Police made\u00a081 applications to cut electricity supply<\/strong>\u00a0to identified venues under the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953. Tenaga Nasional Berhad has completed 67. Finally,\u00a046 applications<\/strong>\u00a0were submitted to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to block gambling-related websites. These are being processed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police in Kuala Lumpur have arrested 29 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22681,"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 conducted extensive raids in Kuala Lumpur and Perak, resulting in 29 arrests in Kuala Lumpur and 1,652 arrests across Perak for illegal gambling operations. Authorities seized cash and electronic devices, initiated business permit revocations, electricity supply cuts, and website blocking requests, demonstrating a concerted effort to combat illicit gaming activities.","focusai_entities":"Datuk Rusdi Mohd Isa, Harian Metro, Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission","focusai_location":"Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Perak","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Market Formalization?","query":"What is the long-term impact of these sustained enforcement actions on the potential for a regulated iGaming market in Malaysia, and how might this influence future B2B\/B2C licensing frameworks?"},{"label":"Effectiveness of Enforcement?","query":"Beyond arrests and seizures, what metrics are being tracked to assess the effectiveness of these multi-agency enforcement strategies in permanently disrupting illegal gambling networks and reducing their GGR?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777021604","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\/777021604","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=777021604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777021619,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021604\/revisions\/777021619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777021604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777021604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777021604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}