36 Chinese nationals charged with operating investment scam in Port Dickson

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Thirty-six Chinese nationals have been jointly charged in the Magistrate's Court in Port Dickson with criminal conspiracy against their fellow countrymen by getting them to invest in non-existent investment schemes.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2s442rwx  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:0036 Chinese nationals have been jointly charged in the Port Dixon Magistrates Court with criminal

00:07conspiracy against their fellow countrymen by getting them to invest in non-existent

00:12investment schemes. No plea was recorded from the accused after they were charged before

00:17Magistrate Mohamed Fares Rahman on Tuesday as they do not understand Bahasa Malaysia.

00:22The 31 men and 5 women, aged between 22 and 39, were accused of operating an online call centre

00:30to scam Chinese nationals. The offence was allegedly committed at a house in Taman Tanjung

00:36at around 3.30pm on August 21. The foreigners were charged under Section 420 of the Penal Code,

00:44read together with Section 12OB, subsection 2 of the same legislation. If convicted,

00:50offenders can be jailed for up to six months, fined or both. Lawyer Chang Kai Ping, representing the

00:57accused, asked the court to allow bail as they had been in police custody for 13 days.

01:02However, Deputy Public Prosecutor Azrif Firdaus Mohamed Ali objected to bail as the accused

01:08were a flight risk. He said checks with immigration revealed their travel passes

01:13had either expired or did not exist. He added that the prosecution has also received a letter

01:19from the Chinese embassy, stating their travel documents have been revoked due to offences in

01:25their country of origin. Azrif also said the accused failed to provide any document to prove

01:31what they were doing in the country, nor provide any address of their relatives. Magistrate Mohamed

01:37Fares said to be granted bail, a foreigner must have a valid travel document, a local contact address,

01:43and two locals as sureties. He said since none of the accused met those conditions, bail was denied,

01:50adding that all 36 accused were a flight risk. He then fixed September 12 for mention and to secure

01:57the services of a Mandarin interpreter. During the raid on August 21, police seized 94 mobile phones,

02:0436 laptops and related items worth about RM220,000.

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