Loyal GISBH leaders ‘rewarded’ with women, says IGP

KUALA LUMPUR: Loyal leaders of GISB Holdings (GISBH) were “rewarded” with women, according to police investigations during the investigation into the company.

“That is why when we investigated several people (leaders) we found that they had more wives,” said Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain.

Razarudin said this included the top leader having more than two wives.

On the other hand, leaders who did not follow instructions were threatened and barred from leaving the group, he said.

Razarudin said police have received reports from GISBH members that they were threatened when they tried to leave the group.

He told Utusan Malaysia that police are still investigating the backgrounds of more than 10,000 GISBH members.

Police only learned the true number of members and their children after documents were seized in a series of raids on rural buildings linked to the GISBH.

“We (the police) still need to see who these people are, how they registered as GISBH members and whether the registrations are legal,” he said.

Earlier, Razarudin said that the GISBH’s beliefs were fanatical and that its members idolized their leaders to such an extent that they distorted the true teachings of Islam.

Earlier this month, police rescued 402 people, some as young as one year old, from GISBH-linked care homes.

Police said the victims had suffered various forms of exploitation and abuse, including sodomization.

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

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