Police personnel inspect a business outlet for possible illegal gambling activities.
KUCHING: A total of 50 individuals were nabbed by police over the past week for illegal lottery activities as well as providing reload services for cyber gambling.
State CID chief Datuk Dev Kumar said a total of 36 raids were conducted from Nov 6 to 12, with the focus mainly on Kuching and Padawan.
“Thirty-two of the raids concerned illegal lottery activities which saw 36 arrests made and RM8,049 in cash seized.
“Mobile phones, portable, printers, calculators, betting slips and stationery items were also seized,” said Dev Kumar in a statement yesterday.
The remaining four raids, he disclosed, were conducted on counters offering cyber gambling reload services in Kuching, Padawan, Bintulu and Matu Daro that resulted in the arrest of 14 individuals and seizure of 14 mobile phones and tablets, as well as RM2,841 in cash.
Dev Kumar pointed out that the 50 individuals arrested were aged between 15 and 49 years, and that 34 of them were male.
All those arrested are being investigated for offences under the Common Gaming House Act 1953.
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