Brunei Currency Used In Lawas Lottery
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - A raid by the Sarawak police last Sunday on illegal four-digit lottery operations in Lawas revealed that Brunei dollars along with Malaysian and Singapore currencies were used in the lottery operations.

Sarawak police believed that the two raids had successfully paralysed an illegal four-digit lottery syndicate that was possibly taking bets from locals here.

Malaysian newspaper reported that Brunei currencies were found at one of the places. In the second raid on a shop house, police recovered B$85,000.

They also arrested 10 people and seized over RM300,000 in various currencies, including Brunei and Singapore.

In the first raid, police confiscated RM255 and various items, including a laptop computer, a hand phone, a fax machine and seven books filled with numbers from a shop-house.

From the second shop-house, they recovered B$85,000 (RM201,450), S$13,000 (RM30,810) and RM89,000, two desktop computers, a laptop computer, four hand phones, four calculators, two fixed-line telephones, one cordless phone, two fax machines, hundreds of loose sheets of paper with numbers on them and nine books filled with numbers. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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