GEORGE TOWN, Nov 4 — Police arrested 35 foreign nationals suspected of involvement in an online fraud syndicate specialising in love scams and gold investment schemes during raids on two residences in Bayan Lepas, near here, last Monday.
Barat Daya police chief ACP Anuwal Ab Wahab said the suspects, comprising 33 Chinese men, one Chinese woman and one Taiwanese man, were arrested in an operation conducted by the district’s Commercial Crime Investigation Division in collaboration with the Penang Contingent Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID).
“Preliminary investigations revealed that the syndicate began operating last September, targeting Chinese national women aged between 18 and 46 through the Telegram application,” he said in a statement today.
