FOUR men, including two policemen, allegedly involved in the multi-million ringgit Macau scam have been held for two years under the Prevention of Crime Act (Poca).

The four – Zaidi Kanapiah or “Datuk Addy Kana”, Goh Leong Yeong, Corporal Muhamad Amin Nur Rashid Mohamed Puad and Corporal Mohd Hairy Mohammad – have been sent to special rehabilitation centres in Simpang Renggam, Bentong and Pokok Sena.

Federal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) director Huzir Mohamed said the four were among 130 individuals linked to the illegal online gambling syndicate who have been arrested.

One of them, Chinese national Cheng Du Wei, said to be the mastermind behind the syndicate, is also wanted by the Chinese government.

“Cheng was arrested with six other Chinese nationals and a Malaysian. All of them are currently detained under Poca.

“In total 130 people have been arrested. We raided 14 premises in the Klang Valley and we have crippled 12 syndicates,” said Huzir.

Addy, Goh and the two policemen were previously detained by the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC).

Goh escaped MACC custody after scaling a wall but was re-arrested by police at a hilltop resort 15 days later.

All four were wanted by MACC and police in connection with money-laundering and online gambling rackets.

MACC had frozen more than 730 bank accounts containing RM101 million and seized RM5 million cash belonging to the syndicate.

The authorities had also seized 23 luxury vehicles and motorcycles believed to have been purchased with proceeds from their illegal operations. – December 1, 2020.