Batu Pahat OCPD Asst Comm Ismail Dollah said that the suspects are aged between 17 and 29 and would be charged under Section 120B of the Penal Code and added that losses worth RM1.5mil were reported.
"The five men and four women were arrested at about 1am on July 17 at Taman Sentosa here and they are believed to have been operating a non-existent money lending syndicate," he said. ACP Ismail added that the suspects operated by acting as a call centre offering loans under a company named Sun Gate Credit Sdn Bhd to victims."They would call the victims through the messaging applications to offer them the loans.
"The victims were later told to make several payments first for legal and activation fees among others," said ACP Ismail. "After the victims have made the payments, the 'agents' stop communicating with the victims," he said.