KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 3 -- Police have arrested 34 foreign nationals in a raid on an online gambling syndicate in Sungai Buloh and busted call centre scam operations in Subang Jaya and Rawang that have cost victims RM515 million.

National news agency Bernama reported that Selangor police chief Datuk Shazeli Kahar said the Sungai Buloh raid on a terrace house, carried out at 5.10am on August 30, saw 29 men - including one local - and five women, aged between 19 and 33, detained.

"From initial investigations, the syndicate will impersonate women on Facebook to lure customers. The victims are then persuaded to access a gambling website while the betting and withdrawal of money is carried out via WhatsApp using an overseas bank account," he s...