JJ Poor to Rich (JJPTR) founder Johnson Lee and his two aides were released in Penang and rearrested today to assist the police’s probe into his company for alleged cheating.

Penang Commercial Crime Investigation Department chief Assistant Commissioner Abdul Ghani Ahmad said Lee was arrested in Penang with his two aides today.

“He will be remanded tomorrow at the Bukit Mertajam court before noon,” he told The Malaysian Insight.

The 28-year-old and the two aides were expected to be remanded in Penang today.

The trio were arrested in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday. Their remand, which was issued by the Klang Magistrate’s Court, expired yesterday at 5pm, their lawyer Jaya Prem Krishnan said.

He said the three men, who never left police custody since their arrests in Petaling Jaya, were supposed to be remanded at the Bukit Mertajam court this morning.

“But we just learned that their names were not on the court’s list for remand,” he told The Malaysian Insight.

Lee and his aides were brought to court at about 9.30am today. They arrived in a police truck together with other suspected law offenders.

Wearing purple police lockup uniforms and barefooted, the three were handcuffed with the others. They left the court premises at about 11am in the same fashion.

“It is like holding a roadshow. The police brought them, handcuffed with the rest, but did not remand them,” Jaya Prem said.

The lawyer, who was not in court this morning, questioned his clients’ detention by the police without remand.

By law, the police can only detain a person for a maximum 24 hours to complete its investigation. For further detention, the police must seek a remand order.

“The police said they were arrested in Penang today. But after their remand ended at 5pm yesterday until midnight today, they continued to be in police custody.”

Jaya Prem said he could raise this up in court tomorrow.

He added that his clients had been very cooperative with investigators.

“The feedback I received was they cooperated. Every question directed at them, they answered,” he said.

Earlier, Lee said he would attend the JJPTR dinner in Kuala Lumpur to meet JJPTR members.

JJPTR, which was said to be involved in forex trading, previously offered investors a 20% monthly return for investing between US$25 (RM108) and US$1,000 (RM4,322.50).

After in business for nearly two years, JJPTR got into trouble late last month following a claimed hacking job, which led the company to lose over RM1.7 billion of investors’ money. This resulted in investors not getting their returns for April.

Following several police reports over the matter, authorities raided JJPTR’s offices in Penang and questioned 19 employees and investors on May 12. – May 20, 2017.