Cops cripple online fraud syndicate with arrest of nine


Kedah police chief Comm Wan Hassan Wan Ahmad (centre) with some of the items seized during the raids on the online fraud syndicate.

ALOR SETAR: Police have crippled an online fraud syndicate with the arrest of eight men and a woman in operations in Kedah and Penang on Thursday (Jan 20).

Kedah police chief Comm Wan Hassan Wan Ahmad said all the suspects, aged between 19 and 51 years old, were nabbed by a team from the Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department and the Kedah Police Contingent Headquarters.

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