{"id":841001,"date":"2025-04-14T18:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/suspected-gang-boss-who-ran-gambling-dens-in-geylang-arrested-in-malaysia-after-4-years-on-the-run-singapore-news\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:12:30","slug":"suspected-gang-boss-who-ran-gambling-dens-in-geylang-arrested-in-malaysia-after-4-years-on-the-run-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/suspected-gang-boss-who-ran-gambling-dens-in-geylang-arrested-in-malaysia-after-4-years-on-the-run-singapore-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected gang boss, who ran gambling dens in Geylang, arrested in Malaysia after 4 years on the run , Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/byline\/hoon-jeng-jee\" route=\"Byline\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.asiaone.com\/sites\/default\/files\/byline_images\/byline\/hoon-jeng-jee.jpg\" alt=\"Hoon Jeng Jee\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><span><span><span>PUBLISHED ON<\/span><b>March 14, 2025 3:57 AM<\/b><\/span><span><span>By<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/byline\/hoon-jeng-jee\" route=\"Byline\"><b>Hoon Jeng Jee<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A suspected leader of a local crime group, who was on the run for four years, was\u00a0arrested in Malaysia, the police said on Thursday (March 13).<\/p>\n<p>The man, now 66, was among the\u00a019 people arrested during a police raid in 2018 for their suspected involvement in operating illegal gambling dens along Lorong 14 and 16, Geylang.<\/p>\n<p>All 19 people were charged in court on March 10,\u00a02021,\u00a0for offences under the Common Gaming House Act (CGHA). The man was also charged for offences under the\u00a0Organised Crime Act 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He subsequently absconded and the State Courts issued a warrant of arrest against him.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0Feb 13, the police were informed that he was arrested in Malaysia for immigration offences\u00a0and fined RM3,000 (S$902).<\/p>\n<p>The Malaysian authorities then handed him over on Feb 28 and he appeared in court on March 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the CGHA, the man can be fined between $500 to $5,000 and imprisoned up to three\u00a0years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For his involvement in a local organised crime group, he faces a five-year sentence, a fine up to $100,000, or both.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man could also be jailed and fined for his alleged drug offences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:715538]]<\/p>\n<p><span \n                data-original-string='6fzbkNq0Uf+GgayLy9KAmQ==7f45TXwDoccbjlHjyqXwgbDnW8HrJvuUihWwL7y\/23d46s='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. 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The man, now 66, was among the\u00a019 people arrested during a police raid in 2018 for their suspected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":841002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31800,1506],"tags":[11082,9484],"class_list":["post-841001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gambling","category-suspected","tag-gambling","tag-suspected"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}