Fast, factual wire coverage from across Malaysia and the region.
One Hundred Label's CEO Cha Ga-won has been detained on fraud charges involving 30 billion won as her rapidly-assembled K-pop enterprise implodes, with major artists terminating contracts and allegations of misappropriated advance payments.
Malaysian authorities have charged 159 Chinese nationals in Johor Baru with criminal conspiracy for allegedly orchestrating an elaborate calling centre fraud involving fraudulent cryptocurrency investments.
A foreigner who reported police extortion in Kuala Lumpur has come under scrutiny after Interpol checks revealed he is wanted in China for involvement in a fraud case.
Authorities in Kuantan have dismantled what officials describe as an international fraud operation, detaining 16 suspects—14 of them foreign nationals—on suspicion of orchestrating deceptive telephone calls aimed at American residents.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating a former civil servant accused of misappropriating RM300,000 in government aid by fraudulently using personal details of 11 individuals to claim benefits.
The Social Security Organisation has moved to reassure the public following fraud allegations linked to the Daya Kerjaya 2.0 employment incentive programme, with leadership declaring that internal staff played no role in the misconduct being scrutinized by anti-corruption authorities.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has launched a major crackdown on fraudulent claims under PERKESO's Daya Kerjaya 2.0 employment incentive scheme, opening 81 investigation papers involving 143 companies and detaining 98 individuals over alleged irregularities worth approximately RM9 million.
The MACC has placed a freeze on RM3.4 million held in company accounts while investigating claims that falsified paperwork was used to secure approximately RM20 million in financing from a development financial institution.
Police have arrested three individuals suspected of orchestrating a RM20 million fraud scheme by submitting falsified documents to secure unauthorised loans from a financial institution.
Singapore police have seized a luxury bungalow valued at more than US$40 million during an ongoing fraud investigation into the alleged illegal transfer of AI chips that violates American export regulations.