Faced with increasingly rampant telecom network fraud, the Malaysian police and some officials proposed imitating neighboring Singapore and flogging the fraudsters. At the end of last year, Singapore amended a new law to increase the penalties for telecommunication network fraud. Violators can be sentenced to up to 24 lashes. According to a report by Malaysia's “Star” on September 8, Minister of Law and System Reform at the Malaysian Prime Minister's Office, Ashalina said on the same day that she fully supports the proposal put forward by the Royal Malaysian Police to impose harsher penalties on telecommunication network fraudsters, including flogging.

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