Gambling den busted in Gadong
By M K Anwar

Confiscated slot machines

Acting on a tip off from the public, CID personnel from the BSB Central Police raided a gambling den Thursday afternoon. Headed by the Acting DSO Brunei District Insp. Norkamal bin Hj Thani, a team of 20 CID personnel raided the suspected room, located at an apartment block in the Gadong Commercial area, at 4 pm. 8 slot machines and some Mahjong tables were found inside the room. The raiding party had to break through the three reinforced doors leading to the gambling room. The police also found B$3000 worth of tokens used for gambling. An anonymous person who had visited the gambling den said that the tokens cost B$1.00 or fifty cents each. Gamblers using the slot machines would use these tokens and later redeem them to claim their winnings.

A man was also detained by the CID personnel during the raid. He will be remanded for further investigation.

This is the second gambling den raided by the police. Another one was raided only last week in the same vicinity.

All the items and equipment used for gambling were confiscated by the police. Although the raided building was located in the busy commercial area, people were unaware of the afternoon raid as the attention was drawn towards the bomb hoax at Centrepoint building at the time.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin