KUALA LUMPUR: To avoid detection, a group of scammers moved their operations from Penang to an unused factory here.
However, the ruse failed to keep them under the radar as police stormed the hideout barely a month after the “migration”.
Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigations Department director Comm Datuk Zainuddin Yaacob said 25 suspects were arrested during the raid.
“Eleven of them are locals while the rest are Chinese nationals.
“Based on our intelligence gathering, the group moved its operations here after the situation was getting ‘hot’ in Penang, ” he said when met at the scene near Desa Tun Razak yesterday.
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