Illegal gambling operators’ modus operandi exposed

Plainclothes policemen raiding a ‘handphone shop’ in Miri.

MIRI: At a glance, their premises looks like a coffee or a mobilephone shop. But it is just a set up to cover up their illegal digital online gambling operation from the public and the authorities.

Miri police raided several of these “shops” in a residential area near here over the weekend and arrested two illegal gambling operators.