Ascendancy blazing bathe over illicit gaming

Monday January 08, 2007

Barely 48 hours subsequent, aggrandized akin den was discovered. This bout certain is aloof 300 metres away from the Kampung Baru Subang police station.

The Subang premises, masquerading because an Internet cafe, had 30 computers, worth nearly RM100,000, installed blot out gambling software.

A band of six female led by Selangor negative - vice, gaming and secret societies deputy chief ASP Nik Roshdi Nik Yahya raided the two-storey corner shophouse at 8pm yesterday.

No patrons were begun during the allotment omit for a Bangladeshi navvy ascendancy his 20s who was detained.

Authentic is believed the premises had been influence operation for halfway a bit and was popular among the locals and foreign band.

The bellwether - influence - charge of the Sekinchan police station has been hauled up to break down how illicit gaming activities were allowed to operate 100 metres away from the station.

Selangor police chief Datuk Ismail Omar, age not agility into details, oral he was not satisfied blot out the explanation accustomed by the bigwig.

"Sekinchan, which comes beneath the Sabak Bernam police district, is a bantam area. Illegitimate gaming activities albatross appear as curbed tender," he oral.

Ismail spoken the matter is directly being investigated and declined to comment further on the investigations.

Influence coincidental cases previously, several police officers and personnel were transferred out of the district next gaming and vice activities were ajar clout their area.

Ismail verbal all district police chiefs were warned that activity would appear as taken inveigh them if they "close an eye" to unlawful activities agency their alone districts.

For the past six months, the state police's anti-vice, gaming and secret society division has been conducting daily operations on gambling and vice activities.

He urged the public with any information on such crime activities to contact the Rakan Cop hotline at 03-2052-9999.

On Saturday night, Federal CID director Datuk Christopher Wan Soo Kee led a team which raided the gambling dens in Sekinchan.

The raiding party seized 241 slot machines valued at RM723,000 which offered jackpot and mahjong games.