Over 90 Chinese nationals arrested in Malaysia for scamming people back in China
Six Malaysians also implicated in syndicate whose phone scams cheated mainlanders out of millions, local police say
Police in Malaysia have arrested 93 Chinese citizens on suspicion of operating a telephone scam from the southeast Asian country that cheated people across mainland China out of millions of yuan.
Six Malaysians, one of them aged just 14, were also arrested during a police raid on a call centre in a high-end business district of Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, on Friday.
Officers also confiscated 169 mobile phones and 114 laptops from the office, which are believed to have been used in the scam.
Commercial crime investigation chief Amar Singh said his team was collaborating with Chinese authorities to determine the size of the losses and how to handle a crime whose victims were all outside Malaysia.
The raid was the latest in a series of similar busts as police in Malaysia seek to tackle a growing trend for call centre style scams, often involving foreign targets.
Two smaller operations were broken up in the southern state of Johor in recent weeks, Singh said.