{"id":79599,"date":"2020-06-19T00:31:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79599"},"modified":"2020-06-19T00:31:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:31:49","slug":"police-bust-online-gambling-syndicate-detain-42-chinese-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79599","title":{"rendered":"Police bust online gambling syndicate, detain 42 Chinese nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 19\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) \u2013 Police have arrested 42 Chinese nationals including two women in raids on several units of a condominium in Jalan Tun Razak here which were used for conducting online gambling activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bestv2.bernama.com\/uploads\/news\/images\/BN202006092774_1393247.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Photo courtesy of PDRM<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim said the suspects, aged between 23 and 35, were rounded up in the operations which began at 5.30 pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe syndicate sent hundreds of WeChat, Whatsapp and\u00a0QQChat messages to its customers in China and has been operating for about two months,\u201d\u00a0he said in a statement here Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe rental for each unit is about&nbsp;RM6,500 and the estimated salary of each worker is between&nbsp;RM2,500 and&nbsp;RM3,000. They operated from&nbsp;9 am to 9 pm daily and the syndicate workers would man the computers and mobile phones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mazlan said police seized&nbsp;24 computers,&nbsp;273 handphones,&nbsp;a laptop and other types of equipment used in running the gambling operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspects have been remanded for&nbsp;14 days until July&nbsp;1 for investigation under Section&nbsp;4(1)(c) and Section 4(1)(g) of the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953, and Section&nbsp;6(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1959\/63.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 19\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) \u2013 Police have arrested 42 Chinese nationals including two women in raids on several units of a condominium in Jalan Tun Razak here which were used for conducting online gambling activities. Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim said the suspects, aged between 23 and 35, were rounded up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":79600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}