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Self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui has been sentenced to 30 years in a US prison for defrauding more than 1,000 investors worldwide of hundreds of millions of dollars between 2018 and 2023.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested three people, including two rice industry directors, for allegedly submitting forged documents to obtain approximately RM20 million in working capital trade financing.
Police in Vietnam's Ninh Binh province have dismantled a transnational online fraud ring, arresting 12 suspects accused of swindling more than 500 victims out of RM39.2 million using elaborate impersonation tactics and fake websites.
Kuala Lumpur police have remanded a woman and her accomplice for 14 days following an investigation into an alleged staged kidnapping plot designed to extract RM18,000 in ransom payments from family members.
Singapore authorities arrested three Malaysian nationals just six hours after they crossed the border, accusing them of working for a scam syndicate to collect cash, gold, and withdrawn illicit funds from victims.
Nine people have been arrested in Pekan in connection with a scheme involving the sale and purchase of fraudulent medical certificates, with four additional suspects detained recently.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has uncovered a coordinated fraud involving company owners, agents and accountants who exploited personal data to illegally claim approximately RM9 million from a government employment incentive scheme.