In an operation aimed at cracking down illegal gambling, the Malaysian police ambushed an illegal casino inside an apartment set up about 300 metres from the police headquarters.
Preliminary investigations by the Kuala Lumpur police revealed that the man running the casino used Whatsapp to attract gamblers to patronise his illegal casino.
The casino had been observing them for several weeks.
On the day of the operation (10 June), the operator of the casino and 12 other locals were arrested on the spot.
The arrested included 10 Malaysians men, 2 Malaysian women and 1 Frenchman.
The organiser had certain “safeguards” in place, requiring the gamblers to first join a Whatsapp group, as well as hand over their Facebook accounts for him to check if they are the police or from any law enforcement agency.
Preliminary investigations revealed that all transactions from the gambling activities were done through online transfers.
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