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A former IT engineer in Besut received an RM18,000 fine for fraudulently using others' identity cards to claim government subsidies, facing 18 months' jail in default of payment.
Perak police have arrested five individuals suspected of operating a scratch-and-win scam that defrauded two elderly women of over RM77,000 in jewellery and cash across Ipoh and Taiping.
Police have remanded a woman and her accomplice for 14 days in connection with an alleged scheme to stage a kidnapping and extort RM18,000 in ransom money.
A Malaysian consumer group has uncovered a major scam involving loan sharks, lawyers and government staff that has cost more than 100 victims over RM50 million in property losses across five years.
Police in Pekan have arrested nine individuals in connection with a scheme involving the sale and distribution of counterfeit medical certificates, with four additional arrests made recently.
Three individuals from Pekan have been arrested for operating a scheme to produce and distribute counterfeit medical certificates falsely bearing the credentials of a government medical officer.