The Home Ministry has just outed a total of 23 criminal gangs throughout the country, and has declared them to be in violation of Section 5(1) of the Societies Act 1966, with the gazette PU(A) 34/2015.
Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the gangs are known to conduct activities which are detrimental to public safety and the rule of law, such as narcotics distribution, prostitution, illegal gambling, luxury car theft and extortion.
The names of the gangs gazetted today are as follows:
- 3821
- Ngo Sek Kee
- Gee Hor Sia
- Chong Woh
- Gee Long San
- Gee It Leng
- Gee Hon San
- Guat Sam Sia
- It Tiam Ang
- Lian Heng Siah
- Ang Mor Low
- Sio Or Leng
- Loong Hong San
- 969 (Kow Lak Kow)
- 32 Sar Jee
- Chaun San
- Fong Hong San
- Jin Jee Tong
- Gee Lam Kok
- Hong Fah
- Knight of Right Keepers @ Kappa Rho Kappa (KRK)
- Malin Kundang (Sandakan)
- Special Force (Lahad Datu)
“These organisationsalso instigate conflicts between other gangs, wreak havoc on society, and conduct illicit smuggling activities. They have also provided intelligence and logistical assistance to groups of kidnappers from the southern Philippines as to the whereabouts and actions of covert law enforcement teams,” Zahid said in a statement released yesterday, obtained by Harian Metro‘s Hayati Ibrahim.
“Following this, no individual or group os allowed to use the name, symbol, insignia, or logo of any of these gangs as representing an organisation, in accordance with the stipulations in Section 7(3)(b) of the Societies Act 1966.”
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