Online casino busted, Singaporean, Chinese nationals held FMTNews
Police said they seized mobile phones, cash, a gold bar, cars, watches, handbags, jewellery and computers in the raids.
PETALING JAYA: The police have busted an international online gambling and illegal digital money changing syndicate following a series of raids around Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. Some 40 people were detained following the raids on May 19. They included 17 Malaysian men and a Malaysian woman; 15 Chinese nationals, of whom six were women; and a Singaporean man.Bukit Aman said the syndicate provided an online gambling platform targeting Taiwanese people, with customers required to transfer funds to a mule account believed to be in China.
“After the transaction is completed, customers will be given ‘points’ to be used on the gambling platform. The syndicate also acted as an unlicensed digital money changer by exchanging money received from China to cryptocurrencies, and then sending the cryptocurrencies to China.The police also seized 88 mobile phones, cash amounting to RM28,587 and US$5,000, a gold bar, three cars, three watches, three handbags, various jewellery and multiple computers following the raids.
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