LANGKAWI: Kedah has recorded an increase in commercial crime circumstances, with losses totalling RM28.90mil final 12 months in comparison with RM17.82mil in 2020.
Kedah police chief Comm Datuk Kamarul Zaman Mamat mentioned the variety of circumstances surged to 1,881 final 12 months towards 1,125 in 2020.
“The variety of dishonest circumstances elevated, particularly throughout the varied phases of the motion management order.
“Due to MCO, there was a change in crime tendencies, from face-to-face to digital.
“Most of the circumstances occurred throughout the MCO when most individuals have been at residence.
“Of the overall variety of commercial crime circumstances final 12 months, a complete of 657 or 34.92%, have been delivered to court docket,” he was quoted by Astro Awani as saying throughout a press convention right here on Monday (Jan 3).
Comm Kamarul Zaman mentioned 90% of the circumstances concerned dishonest, with on-line procuring scams topping the listing (593 circumstances) adopted by Macau scams (397), non-existent mortgage provides (297), non-existent funding alternatives (214), and love scams (98).
