Today's top Malaysian news, sport and lifestyle.
Eight foreign nationals have been arrested in Penang following a police raid on a luxury condominium in Tanjung Bungah, suspected of operating an illegal call centre selling fake online travel packages to victims in China and Taiwan.
A former Singapore Armed Forces captain has been jailed 21 months and fined S$6,000 after defrauding colleagues of over S$86,000 and operating a vaping ring that corrupted subordinates through abuse of rank.
Authorities in Terengganu have detained three individuals, including a former frozen food company manager, following allegations of submitting inflated invoices for wedding catering services totalling RM51,000.
A Shenzhen-based investor spent 13 million yuan over nine years tracking his fraudulent ex-wife to Los Angeles, resulting in her 65-year prison sentence in California for multiple crimes including fraud and human trafficking.
Malaysian police have arrested 12 Chinese nationals following coordinated raids on two call centres in Ipoh suspected of running elaborate romance fraud schemes targeting victims across China.
Perak police have arrested 12 Chinese nationals across two separate operations in Ipoh targeting suspected romance scam centres. The raids reflect ongoing efforts to tackle online fraud affecting vulnerable Malaysians.
An Indonesian researcher's discovery of fraudulent conference presentations has exposed systemic academic integrity failures across Southeast Asia. Malaysia faces similar challenges threatening its status as a credible knowledge economy.
Police have arrested a woman and her two adult children following a welfare assistance fraud that defrauded an elderly victim of RM8,000 worth of jewellery. Investigators recovered the stolen items after tracing them to a pawnshop.
Guo Wengui, a self-exiled Chinese billionaire who reinvented himself as a democracy advocate in the US, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for defrauding over 1,000 investors worldwide of hundreds of millions of dollars through bogus investment schemes.
A High Court judge in Kuala Lumpur has rejected an application by three former travel company directors seeking to postpone a RM492,480 refund to umrah pilgrims pending their appeal outcome.
A Shanghai resident with a fraud history swindled longtime friends of over 700,000 yuan by illegally changing locks on a vacant flat and selling it without ownership rights. He has been sentenced to 10 years and three months in prison.
Indonesian authorities have arrested a Chinese national at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta Airport following an Interpol Beijing warrant. Zheng Rongjing is suspected of operating a major online scam network from Cambodia.
A 30-year-old Malaysian was sentenced to 16 months in jail for joining a Cambodian scam syndicate, though he lasted only three days before being fired for failing to defraud anyone.
Malaysian police have arrested six individuals following a raid at KL Eco City, dismantling what authorities describe as an organised perfume investment fraud ring that targeted multiple victims.