MLM Kills

A recent incident which was reported in Kajang. Some 20 members of a multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme stormed the house of their recruiter after she disappeared for a week with about RM1mil of their money. Unable to find the recruiter, the group instead decided, and then proceeded to abduct the recruiter’s mother instead.

Kajang OCPD Willey Richard said the recruiter, a 25-year-old woman, had been running a pyramid scheme for about a year and recruited her agents via Facebook. “She ran away with her husband and children. This was not her first time getting threats from her agents.” “Previously, she returned a few hundred thousand ringgit to her agents after they threatened her. Some of them invested the money back into the scheme,” he explained.

Following the abduction, the recruiter’s younger sister lodged a police report regarding the incident and the police found the mother at a bus stop in Bentong, Pahang, all within a day.

The case has been classified as Section 506 of the Penal Code for criminal intimidation and Section 365 of the same code for kidnap or abduction to wrongfully confine people. According to the police, upon recruitment, the agents would invest between RM100 to a few thousand ringgit in the scheme and about 10 agents have lodged police reports against the recruiter. They were lured by promises that they would see high returns on their investment within a month.