Ministry committed to eradicate cyber crime

KUCHING: The Ministry of Communications and Multimedia (KKMM) is committed in efforts to eradicate telecommunicationsrelated crimes.

Its deputy secretary-general (policy) Shakib Ahmad Shakir said the ministry was working closely with its strategic partners to carry out cyber crime campaign this year with two hashtags, #ScamAlert and #JanganTerpedaya to serve as a reminder to the public.

For example, he said, throughout 2018, a total of 1,360 cases involving human trafficking victims were reported, based on the record from the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Council (MAPO).

“The vast majority of cases involve sexual exploitation and forced labour,” he said in his speech when officiating the briefing on prevention of cyber crime and anti-human trafficking at the RTM Kuching’s P.Ramlee Auditorium here yesterday.

However, he said, there was a decline in the number of cases of human trafficking, from 429 cases in 2017 to 303 cases in 2018.

Likewise, in terms of total number of arrests was also dropped, from 676 cases in 2017 to 395 cases in 2018.

However, he said, cases in this category remained high, involving 5,940 people.

He said in the last few weeks, 47 Malaysians were detained in Cambodia with 40 of them were from Sarawak who were duped by jobs syndicate.