Mancha: Global Ikhwan has long been under Sarawak police surveillance

KUCHING (Sept 19): Global Ikhwan Service and Business Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISBH) has long been under the surveillance of police in Sarawak, said Datuk Mancha Ata.

The Sarawak police commissioner said however, no police report has been lodged against the organisation in Sarawak so far.

“We have carried out our investigations and intelligence gathering.

“We have identified the GISBH operations in Sarawak and their locations,” he told a press conference here this morning.

He said Sarawak police are working with their counterparts from Bukit Aman headquarters and continuing to monitor the organisation.

Yesterday, Women, Early Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development Minister Dato Sri Fatimah Abdullah said the state Welfare Department is monitoring a childcare centre linked to GISBH here.

She revealed that the centre’s licence expired in 2019 but it had continued operations and relocated several times.

Fatimah said when the Welfare Department last inspected the centre on July 10 this year, 18 children were found to be residing there.

On Wednesday, inspector-general of police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said 96 bank accounts linked to GISBH worth RM581,552.31 have been frozen by the authorities.

The police had on Sept 11 raided charity homes in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, rescuing 402 individuals aged between one and 17 years.

From a preliminary screening, Razarudin was reported as saying 13 of the child victims were sodomised, on top of other cases of physical and emotional abuse.