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KUALA LUMPUR: A police report has been filed on the so-called surge of college and university students in Klang Valley using an app to find sugar daddies.
Bukit Aman CID Director Comm Datuk Huzir Mohamed said the report was submitted by a public institution of higher education.
“We already opened an investigative document after receiving the report.
“We have contacted the management of the institution to reach further among its students.
“In fact, we urge other universities or colleges to report the matter to the police if they have such information,” he said when contacted on Sunday (February 14).
Comm Huzir said that he has instructed the unit for the Fight against Trafficking in Persons and Against the Smuggling of Migrants (Atipsom) of the CID (D3) and the division against vice, gambling and secret societies (D7) to investigate the matter further.
“We have also started an investigation by reviewing the application (Sugarbook) to identify activities that could lead to prostitution.
“We are investigating under Section 505 (b) of the Penal Code for making statements that cause alarm and public distress, as well as Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act of 1998 for improper use of network facilities.
“We are conducting an investigation under Section 372 of the Penal Code for prostitution,” he added.
The Deputy Minister of the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs), Datuk Ahmad Marzuk Shaary, was reported to have called for the “Sugarbook” app to be blocked, as it is allegedly used by various college students to search for sugar dads.
He said that if this was really happening among students, the government should crack down on those involved, especially the “Sugarbook” operators.
Sugarbook claims that an increasing number of public and private college students in this country have been using its app to search for sugar daddies to earn easy money and solve their financial problems, especially during this Covid-19 pandemic.
Sugarbook is also said to be the largest Sugar Daddy-Sugar Baby dating service in Asia.
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