JOHOR BAHRU, July 28 -- Johor police have busted two online scam syndicates that operate call centres in Forest City in Iskandar Puteri, following the arrest of 335 suspects that included foreigners recently.

Those arrested in the operation on July 15 consisted of 309 Chinese nationals, 19 Indonesian nationals, four Myanmar nationals and three locals.

All suspects were aged between 20 and 58.

Johor police chief Datuk Ab Rahaman Arsad said the suspects were nabbed in an integrated operation carried out simultaneously on 27 residential apartment units and five bungalows which were used as the syndicate's operations centre.

"This operation had successfully crippled two different syndicates that carried out online scam activities such as ...