15 arrested including Bangladeshis in Malaysia

The country's immigration department has arrested 15 people including the Bangladeshi master of the online gambling syndicate in Malaysia. 14 of those arrested are foreign nationals.

They were arrested in separate raids in Klang in the country's Selangor state and in the capital Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (March 28) local time. Immigration authorities then shut down the offices of the online gambling syndicate.

Immigration Department director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh said the syndicate had been operating gambling operations in a secret room in a snooker parlour. Two Indonesian women aged 25 and 40 have been arrested. who operated gambling machines and did not have a valid work pass. Where a 40-year-old local man was the gambling supervisor.
On Thursday, the director-general of the immigration department told state-run Bernama news agency that access to the secret room required the use of a password from the customer syndicate.

Apart from this, the Immigration Department has raided several other places in the capital Kuala Lumpur and arrested six Bangladeshis, one Nepali and one Indonesian woman. Among them is a 40-year-old host, who is the expatriate husband of a local woman. He also owns a cleaner company. 46 computers, 37 passports and 1 lakh 14 thousand 450 ringgit in cash were seized from them.

The director-general of the Immigration Department said the syndicate earned between 1.3 and 1.5 million ringgit per year based on the amount of cash seized.

It is learned that the arrested have been kept at the immigration depot and a local man has been remanded for three days for assisting them in their work. Those arrested will be further investigated under the Immigration Act 1959/63 and the Immigration Regulations 1963.

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