More than 300 OCBC bank accounts linked to scammers frozen by police, S$1.8mil seized


The police said they observed an increase in suspicious activity in local bank accounts opened by foreigners. - ST FILE

SINGAPORE: More than 300 OCBC bank accounts with suspected links to scam-related activities were frozen by the authorities, and more than S$1.8 million seized.

The police, in a statement on Tuesday (Aug 20), said officers from the Anti-Scam Centre worked with OCBC Bank from May to August to carry out a joint operation aimed at weeding out money mules.

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