KAJANG: A syndicate promoting sexual services and selling pornographic videos and sex-enhancing drugs on social media sites has been smashed.
Police said the syndicate would entice people to subscribe to its Telegram channel for a fee of between RM450 and RM550 per customer.
Checks on the syndicate’s TikTok account revealed it had 226,000 active followers.
It also used WhatsApp to contact customers to arrange meetings for payments if clients were interested in getting sexual services, Bukit Aman anti-vice, gambling and secret societies division (D7) principal assistant director Senior Asst Comm Mohamad Farouk Eshak said when contacted yesterday.
He said three men and two women aged between 17 and 26 were arrested when D7 officers from Bukit Aman raided a house in Bandar Bukit Mahkota here in an operation codenamed “Ops E-Noda”.
The suspects were brought to the Kajang district police headquarters for questioning.
Mohamad Farouk said investigations revealed that the syndicate could rake in up to RM20,000 a month through its activities on social media.
The case is being investigated under Sections 372(1)(e) and 292(a) of the Penal Code, Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, and Section 6(1)(c) of the Immigration Act.
In a similar case in January, D7 officers detained a man who sold videos of himself having sex with more than 20 women.
The 31-year-old suspect was arrested at a house in Kampung Janda Baik, Pahang. Two women, aged 23 and 27, were also detained.
The man was found to have been promoting his sex videos on Telegram and had started selling sex-enhancing medicine from China through social media early last year.
He also began filming his sex escapades with multiple women and sold the videos via three channels on Telegram since last July.
