00:00On 19 February 2025, at around 11.30am, there was a ruckus in the Special Operations.
00:18A party meeting was held by the Immigration Officers from the Special Operations Branch,
00:29where 120 Immigration Officers from various branches participated in the operation.
00:37The ruckus involved 17 PMIs in Kediaman Mewar, Kuchai Lama, Kuala Lumpur.
00:46The operation was carried out based on public information,
00:52and involved 3 weeks of research activities.
00:58The results of the research found that the PMIs involved were rented out by scammers
01:08run by citizens from various nations and countries.
01:15The modus operandi of this syndicate was to carry out activities to empower the victims
01:21by offering stock, goods and real estate in online or online that does not exist.
01:32This syndicate operated using social media applications such as Facebook,
01:39Tiktok, WeChat, WhatsApp, Telegram and other mediums.
01:46The victims were locals and foreigners living abroad.
01:54Based on the initial research carried out, the PMIs were used as a call centre
02:05to contact customers to offer gold purchases, real estate, luxury ships, stock investment and foreign currency.
02:17This syndicate also offered gambling services in online and love scams that do not exist.
02:26The victim's phone number was obtained by the syndicate in person,
02:31and the victim's family members were asked to transfer a sum of money to an account
02:42that was believed to belong to the locals and was used as a bank account.
02:49This syndicate was estimated to have obtained a sum of RM100,000 to RM150,000 per day
02:59from the activities of the PMIs.
03:03Based on the documents found during the investigation and information provided by the gym,
03:11this syndicate was believed to have been operating for almost three months before it was transferred by the gym.
03:19In this operation, the gym has arrested and detained 46 foreigners aged between 23 and 54
03:32consisting of 14 men from the People's Republic of China, 15 men and 4 women from Indonesia,
03:421 man and 2 women from Myanmar, 2 men from Bangladesh, 6 women from Thailand and 2 women from Laos.
03:56As a result of the robbery, the gym confiscated a large amount of equipment
04:01consisting of 2 units of Lenovo's REC server, 4 units of HP's computer ribbons,
04:1788 units of BIMBIT telephone, 3 routers, 4 modems, 26 SIM cards and a sum of RM100,000.
04:30The syndicate also received a sum of RM2,500 to RM3,500 per month.
04:43All foreigners arrested in this operation were detained under Section 51-5-B,
04:51Article 19-59-63 under Section 6-1C,
05:01i.e. entering Malaysia without proper documents.
05:06They were also detained under Section 51-1-C,
05:10i.e. staying in Malaysia for a longer period of time, not overstaying.
05:14Finally, they were detained under Section 39-B,
05:18Article 19-63-B, i.e. violating the social security requirements.
Comments