Indonesian police have arrested 321 foreign nationals, mostly from Vietnam, on suspicion of involvement in banned online gambling, officials said.
The suspects were arrested in an office building in central Jakarta as authorities crack down on online gambling - which is banned in the world's largest Muslim-majority country - and international crime syndicates.
Among those arrested are 228 people from Vietnam, 57 from China, 13 from Myanmar, 11 from Laos, five from Thailand and three from Cambodia, Wira Satya Triputra, director of the Indonesian police's criminal investigation unit, told a news conference.
Vira said the suspects had been running an online gambling operation for two months.
Of the 321 people arrested, 275 were charged with violating Indonesia's gambling penal code, which carries a maximum sentence of nine years in prison, Reuters reports.
Vira said most foreigners knew he was coming to Indonesia to run online gambling operations, adding that they mainly targeted foreign clients.
An official from Interpol Indonesia, Untung Widjatmoko, told a press conference that there was a trend of online gambling operations moving from Cambodian cities to Indonesia.
It was the second large-scale detention of foreigners in two days. On Friday, Indonesian immigration authorities on the island of Batam, about 20 kilometers from Singapore, arrested 210 foreign nationals allegedly involved in online investment scams.
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