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Four nabbed in Genting over fraud involving job offers, bank draft dealings

Pahang cops also seize nine mobile phones, six laptops in raid

Updated 3 years ago · Published on 15 Aug 2022 11:31PM

Four nabbed in Genting over fraud involving job offers, bank draft dealings
Police say they believe the arrests would uncover more fraudulent activities involving job offers and the buying and selling of bank drafts in Pahang or in other states. – Pixabay pic, August 15, 2022

KUANTAN – Pahang police arrested four men, including a Chinese national, in connection with fraudulent job offers and dealings in the sale and purchase of bank drafts in Genting Highlands, Bentong yesterday.

Pahang police chief Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf said the suspects, aged between 21 and 32, were arrested in a raid involving the Pahang contingent police headquarter’s Commercial Crime Investigation Department and the Commercial Crime Investigation Division of the Bentong district headquarters.

“Preliminary investigations found that two of the suspects, one local and a Chinese citizen, were involved in this activity for the past six months, while the other two working as ‘junket’ dealers in Genting Highlands were at the premises of the raid at the time of the arrest.

“In the raid, we confiscated nine mobile phones and six laptops,” he said in a statement here today.

Ramli said he believed the arrests would uncover more fraudulent activities involving job offers and the buying and selling of bank drafts in Pahang or in other states.

Further investigations are being carried out under Section 420 of the Penal Code, which provides for a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and caning, as well as a fine, upon conviction. – Bernama, August 15, 2022

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