Nearly 100 detained in nationwide crackdown on gambling call centres

KUALA LUMPUR: Eighty-five individuals were detained following large-scale raids on illegal gambling call centres nationwide.

Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department (CID) director Comm Datuk M. Kumar said the four-day operation, codenamed Ops Dadu Mega, was conducted by the department's anti-vice, gambling and secret societies division (D7) from Dec 20 to Dec 23.