Cops bust syndicate providing online payment facilities for gambling syndicates

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A syndicate that offers online payment facilities for illegal gambling syndicates has been busted with the arrests of 10 individuals, including a Datuk Seri.  Read more at http://tinyurl.com/4x4yn96s  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 So, PDRM through the Crime Investigation Team of the Ministry of Finance,

00:07 under the KPN and the D7,

00:13 with the cooperation of the D7,

00:17 has managed to pass a syndicate that provides ease of payment gateway

00:23 through the FPA system to the syndicate of fraud

00:28 on the line through several syndicates that we have run

00:33 around Lembah Kelang.

00:35 Starting from 28 to 31 January 2024,

00:41 a total of 10 local residents,

00:45 including one local man named Dato Sri,

00:49 consisting of 9 men and 1 woman,

00:54 aged between 27 and 49 years,

00:58 were detained because they suspected they were involved in a syndicate

01:01 that provides ease of payment gateway, FPA.

01:04 They were all detained for 3 to 11 days

01:08 to assist in the investigation

01:10 that was carried out under Sections 41C and 41G

01:15 of the Open Court of Arbitration Act of 1953

01:18 and Section 41 of the Amblat IV Act of 2001.

01:22 The detainees were 9 units of mobile phones,

01:25 3 computers, 4 sets of documents, 2 watches,

01:30 10 vehicles, cash of RM325,000

01:35 and the fraud on 42 bank accounts worth RM18,290,623

01:44 that was believed to be the result of the activities of the crime.

01:48 Based on the evidence, the syndicate,

01:52 the payment gateway FPA,

01:54 started operations in mid-2022

01:59 with a protector behind an entity

02:03 named Cita Layar Senyum Berhad.

02:05 This company has built a payment gateway platform

02:09 named MyPay88

02:11 which is used as a medium for gamblers

02:15 to make payments to start a deposit.

02:19 Based on the investigation,

02:22 the syndicate has been operating for a year

02:25 and has managed to make transactions

02:27 up to RM576,000

02:30 from the acquisition of the Turnover Act.

02:33 This arrest was the first and also the biggest robbery

02:37 that was ever committed

02:39 involving the syndicate payment gateway.

02:41 This syndicate is known for using

02:45 a payment system on a wire

02:49 to help gambling activities on a wire

02:52 and other criminal activities.

02:55 [Background noise]

03:05 [Silence]

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