Immigration offences quoted this time
After a raid conducted on Apr. 5, twenty-four Malaysian and Taiwanese nationals were fined and sentenced to a month in jail by a Malaysian court this week.
The website over which they got arrested is estimated to have taken four billion ringgit ($1.3 billion) during the month of its operation. It offered bets on English Premier League football games and other online gambling types, and it was operated in conjunction with Mexican syndicates.
According to the lawyer who represents ten of the accused, Zaflee Pakwanteh, “As the authorities found it difficult to charge them with fraud as the offence took place overseas, they were charged on immigration offences like entering Malaysia illegally without a passport or using fake travel documents.”
So far, six of the accused have denied charges and will stand trial scheduled for May.
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