GEORGE TOWN, April 19 -- Police raided three condominiums in Sungai Nibong that were being used as call centres for an online fraud syndicate, arresting 11 individuals, including foreign nationals.

Penang police chief Datuk Azizee Ismail said the raids were conducted last Friday by the state's Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) following intelligence and surveillance.

"The arrests comprise three Chinese men, two Taiwanese men, two Vietnamese men and one woman, one Japanese man, and two local men, aged between 21 and 56.

"Initial investigations found that all suspects were working as customer service agents, operating fake Facebook accounts for online fraud," he said in a statement today.

Azizee said the syndicate is beli...