KULAI, April 9 -- A 16-year-old boy was arrested yesterday on suspicion of selling deepfake pornography, allegedly superimposing the faces of real women and girls onto bodies without their knowledge or consent.

The suspect, a secondary school student, allegedly used social media platforms to sell these deepfake images to the public.

Johor police chief Datuk M. Kumar said the investigation was triggered after an 18-year-old woman filed a police report, claiming that her face had been used in pornographic images widely circulated on social media.

"Following this, a team from the Kulai district police commercial crime division was quickly assigned to investigate the case," Kumar said in a statement today.

Kumar said police then tracked d...