{"id":421533,"date":"2026-02-12T09:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421533\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:37:19","slug":"anwar-crackdown-on-illegal-gambling-to-intensify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421533\/","title":{"rendered":"Anwar: Crackdown on illegal gambling to intensify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Crackdowns on illegal gambling will continue to intensify, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>Anwar, who is also the Finance Minister, said seizures have already exceeded billions of ringgit and assured that the government will not relent in its efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurbing this requires continuous and coordinated effort. However, it will not be an easy feat, as illegal gambling operators may be based abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also use complex mechanisms, allowing them to start up and shut down operations almost immediately,\u201d he said during Question Time in the Dewan Rakyat on Wednesday (Feb 11).<\/p>\n<p>Curbing this, he said, requires a dual-pronged approach.<\/p>\n<p>This includes stronger enforcement measures to tackle illegal gambling activities, alongside efforts to enhance public accountability and awareness of actions that contravene the country\u2019s laws.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to Fong Kui Lun (PH-Bukit Bintang), who had asked whether the government views action against illegal gambling operators as a complementary measure to plug revenue leakages.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUALA LUMPUR: Crackdowns on illegal gambling will continue to intensify, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[17551,52205,102,154787,1906,6623,423,72908,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-421533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-anwar-ibrahim","9":"tag-finance-minister","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-illegal-gambling","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth","14":"tag-parliament","15":"tag-question-time","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}