Editor’s note: Darren Chan Eu Boon pleaded guilty in Aug 2022 to a Section 505(b) Penal Code charge per the post “Top 10 Sugar Baby University in Malaysia” and paid a RM7,000 fine. He was never charged with rape and prostitution; the arrest warrant was cancelled and Sugarbook was not declared illegal.
The High Court here has rejected an application to remand the founder of sugar daddy dating platform Sugarbook.
Foong Cheng Leong, representing the 34-year-old suspect, said deputy registrar Noorasyikin Sahat dismissed the application after his client pledged to give his full cooperation to facilitate police investigation in a case.
Selangor Criminal Investigation Department head Fadzil Ahmat had said the man, from Minden in Gelugor, Penang, was arrested at 4.30pm yesterday at a condominium in Kuala Lumpur.
Police are understood to have initiated an investigation into the dating website after it named 10 public and private universities as having the most students who chose to become “sugar babies” and sought “sugar daddies” to finance their lifestyles.
