Police are investigating claims from GISB quarantine centers for indoctrination and abuse

KUALA LUMPUR: Police are investigating claims by the Malaysian Center for the Study of Deviant Teachings (Pukas) suggesting that the Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISB) owns several quarantine centers in different locations both within and outside the country.

In a statement, Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said the investigation comes after a post from the center on its Facebook account.

“Police are investigating information uploaded through Pukas’ Facebook account, alleging the existence of GISB quarantine centers in various locations both within and outside the country.

“These quarantine centers are considered places of indoctrination and mental abuse for problematic GISB members,” Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said in a statement today.

Razarudin added that police have also opened ten investigation papers under Article 12 of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act (ATIPSOM) 2007, following police reports regarding forced labor issues received from several people who had previously worked with GISB. .

Razarudin earlier said a total of 10 papers had been opened during the first phase of the investigation – six in Selangor and four in Negeri Sembilan.

Meanwhile, he added that police are actively pursuing assets related to or owned by GISB.

He also said the police, in collaboration with the Inland Revenue Board, are investigating GISB’s recent tax assessment.

“This investigation focuses on several companies under GISBH, which are believed to have failed to comply with certain provisions of the Income Tax Act 1967.”

Earlier this month, police rescued 402 people, some as young as one year old, from GISB-linked care homes who had suffered various forms of exploitation and abuse, including sodomization.

GISB has since denied the allegations of child exploitation and sexual abuse.

On September 23, Razarudin said that in phase four of Op Global, 187 more victims were rescued, including 100 men and 87 women.

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