‘Those housing scammers must face the music’


KUALA LUMPUR: Harsher punishments may await owners and real estate agents who rent out premises to scam syndicates, with property owners or their agents potentially considered as accomplices, said Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Comm Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf.

He said police needed to be strict in order to deter people from allowing these syndicates to set up call centres to scam the public.“We are studying the use of Section 34 and Section 109 of the Penal Code together with Section 420 against those found renting out premises to scam call centres,” he said at the CCID headquarters here yesterday.

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