Sumber Malaysia Chronicle headline: Toots (the nickname of a Myanmar migrant worker) sits behind the cashier’s counter at a cybercafé in Taman Kosas, Ampang. Only this is no ordinary cybercafé. It is a playground for many people of all walks of life to gamble illegally on the Internet. During the weekdays, Toots revealed that his cybercafé casino rakes in around RM60,000 to RM80,000 a day and on weekends between RM100,000 to RM120,000 a day. The owner of the premises is reputed to be a member of a gangland triad operating a number of cyber cafe casinos in the Klang Valley. Not only through activities such as these but through money-laundering, illegal deposit taking and a range of scams, the Malaysian black market economy is thriving and a guesstimate puts the worth of the economy as running into multi-billions of ringgit. Full article: malaysia-chronicle/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=167812:malaysia-or-malang-sia-black-market-booms-vice-criminals-never-had-it-so-good&Itemid=2#ixzz2gKfRNNXW Follow us: @MsiaChronicle on Twitter
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:45:40 +0000