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PUTRAJAYA: MACC arrested eight police officers on suspicion of protecting people who operate online gambling and phone scams.
His boss, Datuk Seri Azam Baki, said that MACC also froze 730 bank accounts worth RM80 thousand.
Additionally, cash totaling RM5 thousand was seized, along with 23 luxury cars, including Bentleys, Rolls Royce, Porsches, Lamborghinis.
“We have arrested officers from an enforcement agency who we believe are involved in providing protection to those who operate online gambling and scams in Macau,” he said in an interview with MACC.fm.
Apart from the police officers, 11 locals and one Chinese national were also detained as part of the investigations.
Azam said the seized money would be funneled into the country’s coffers, as they were “people’s money.”
On Wednesday (October 7), Deputy Inspector General of Police Datuk Seri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani confirmed that MACC had detained two high-ranking CID officers.
The term “Macau scam” was coined because the phone scam is believed to have originated in Macau or that the first victims came from there. This has never been confirmed.
The scam often begins with a phone call from someone posing as a bank official, government agency, or debt collector.
The scammer will then claim that the potential victim owes money or has an unpaid fine, often with a very short window of less than an hour, to clear the payment or face “dire consequences.”
These unsuspecting victims will be asked to make payments to get out of trouble.
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