GEORGE TOWN: Police have arrested a 38-year-old businessman suspected of allowing his bank account to be used by a phone scam syndicate that has caused a victim to lose more than RM600,000.
Penang police chief Comm Datuk Azizee Ismail said the suspect was picked up in central Seberang Perai on Tuesday (Sept 23) during Ops Mule NSRC conducted by the district Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID).
“Initial investigation found the suspect had handed over his bank account details and ATM card to another man in central Seberang Perai in August,” he said in a statement on Wednesday (Sept 24).
Comm Azizee reminded the public never to disclose banking information or hand over ATM cards to others, warning that such accounts risk being turned into “mule accounts” for scam syndicates.
