The police have arrested eight mainland men for their alleged involvement in a 60-member casino loan-sharking gang, a Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesperson said at a special press conference yesterday.
The spokesperson said that based on a tip-off in April, the police began investigating the gang.
According to the spokesperson, the suspects mainly operated near casinos in Zape where they looked for potential clients, and if the gamblers couldn’t pay back their loans, the suspects withheld their identification documents and confined them in a hotel room to ensure that they paid their gambling debts.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers escort the hooded casino loan-sharking suspects to a police vehicle outside the PJ headquarters in Zape yesterday. – Photo: Iong Tat Choi
