Sabah Immigration Dept detains 14 Chinese nationals in Sandakan during online scam raid

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SANDAKAN: Fourteen Chinese nationals suspected of involvement in online scams have been detained following a raid on a three-storey bungalow in an upscale neighbourhood here. The men, aged between 26 and 44, were arrested during an operation codenamed Ops Serkap at about 11pm on Wednesday (Nov 4), following a week of intelligence gathering by the Sabah Immigration Department. State Immigration director Datuk Sh Sitti Saleha Habib Yussof said all 14 men were believed to have entered Malaysia using social visit passes. “Initial investigations found that four of them had transited through Cambodia before arriving in Sabah, five flew directly from…

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