BUTTERWORTH: With 55 arrests to date, gambling activities in the Seberang Prai Utara (SPU) district have shown no sign of abating.
Thirty-nine people were nabbed for illegal lottery gambling and 16 people for online gambling.
A total of 470 people were arrested last year — 351 for illegal lottery gambling and 119 for online gambling respectively.
Seberang Prai Utara district police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Asri Shafie said the district police continuously monitored gambling activities and had made many arrests.
"Gambling is a never ending story. As long as the people exist, they will be gambling.
"The police can only curb gambling activities. To eliminate it 100 per cent is impossible," he told the New Straits Times here today.
He was asked on allegations of corruption and illegal gambling activities by a channel on Telegram.
The group known as "Edisi Siasat" claimed illegal lottery gambling was being carried out openly without action by the authorities.
Asri asked if what was featured in the Telegram channel was indeed gambling activity.
"Who can confirm that? Maybe, it's merely an accusation," he asked.
