JOHOR BARU: Lighter penalties and cheaper operating costs are the main reasons why Singapore bookies have shifted base from the island republic to here.
Federal deputy CID director Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd Nawawi Ismail said investigations revealed that Singaporean book-making syndicates also took advantage of the currency exchange in their favour to set up bases here.
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