by Admin
Sep 22, 2024
In one of the most bizarre cases in Malaysia crime history, the Royal Malaysia Police Force has rescued 402 children from child trafficking and abuse which led to the arrest of prominent figures and hundreds of others involved in the case.
Razarudin Husain, the Inspector-General of Police confirmed the arrest and the investigation, he said said Nasiruddin Mohd Ali, the head of Global Ikhwan Services and Business (GISB), and 18 other people within the age range from 25 to 65 were arrested following a police raid in the capital, Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
The inspector general also disclosed that five other people linked to the company were also arrested at the border with Thailand.
The Police arrested 171 adults which included religious teachers and caretakers in the coordinated raids.
Global Ikhwan Services and Business (GISB), is an “Islamic” company which provides services in Malaysia and 20 other countries, with leading supermarkets and laundromats in these countries.
Several leaders of GISB were arrested by the Malaysian police in connection with the child trafficking case; the company has been linked to the now-defunct Malaysia-based Al-Arqam religious sect.
The systemic crime which also includes two of Nasiruddin’s four wives and two of his children, also includes several children of late Malaysian preacher Ashaari Mohamed, founder of Al-Arqam, a religious group that has been banned by the Malaysia government since 1994 after being suspected of heretical practices.
The rescue operation which took place at twenty different locations around two different states in Malaysia, showed that the rescued children showed signs of physical abuse and sexual violence.
The children were denied medical treatment and burned with hot metal spoons as punishment on the basis for being disobedient.
Some of the children, aged from 1 to 17, were believed to have been sodomized by their guardians and taught to sexually abuse each other.
Medical screening revealed that a total number of 13 teens were sodomized and 172 children suffered a series of physical and emotional long term injuries.
The Malaysia government have frozen 96 bank accounts linked to GISB, with a value of 581,000 ringgit ($137,000), as part of the ongoing investigation into sexual abuse, child neglect, human trafficking and money laundering.