Datuk Seri Nicky, A Triad Leader Linked with International Crime Fugitive and Current Wanted by Police
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Over the past few weeks, the businessman Datuk Seri Nicky Liow Soon Hee who is currently on the run and wanted by the police. The police has arrested 68 individuals connected to Liow and his fraud syndicate and more information and links to his secret societies are started to reveal. On 2017, he was caught assaulting three RELA personnel and also a gang fight in Scott Garden, Kuala Lumpur in 2019.
His syndicate which is known as Nicky Gang targets victim in China by offering investment schemes which promised high returns and the fund they received were later channelled into online gambling website and cryptocurrency which the money will come out clean after laundered through the exchange services, online gambling and underground casinos. He is also accused of involved in the Macau scam.
With the latest raid and operation from police, the 33-year-old fugitive has RM40 million in his bank account and a net worth of RM1 billion. Here are eight other details which you should know about Liow.
1. Liow’s brothers who were found to have previous criminal records involving drugs and assault cases, who are a 28-year-old Datuk and a 30-year-old Datuk Seri.
2. Another Datuk Seri and five other Datuks were also arrested, among other is 42 individuals arrested under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma), 30 are Malaysians and 18 are China nationals.
3. Liow has run off with eight bags of cash while fleeing which is believes to have contains millions of ringgit and the police have frozen 41 bank accounts worth RM4,053,809.49 and seized 35 vehicles worth RM8,863,759.00 connected to him. Cash in various currencies amounting to over RM700,000 and 16 luxury cars valued at RM6.67 million were also confiscated.
4. Liow has also bribed authorities in order to get any information regarding he were detected by any enforcement agencies. A former deputy public prosecutor also know to be Liow’s fixer and 34 police officers and enforcement officers are also a part of Nicky Gang.
5. Zhang Jian, the self-proclaimed future richest man in the world is Liow’s mentor and he used to run a multi-level marketing (MLM) company headquartered in SetiaWalk and he was wanted by several neighbouring countries which then he was arrested in Indonesia and sent back to China in 2017.
6. Liow is close with the Chinese triad boss Wan Kuok-Koi who is also known as Broken Tooth, was responsible for the rise of the gang violence in gambling enclave of Macau in the late 1990s. Which he is also the leader of the Macau branch of Hong Kong Based 14K triad organised crime group and also founder of the World Hongmen History and Culture Association.
He was arrested and spend 14 years in prison until 2012, and last year he was appointed as Inix Technologies Berhad’s independent non-executive chairman which is a listed company in Malaysia.
7. Liow is linked to Wan and Wan is linked to international drug lord Tse Chi Lop who is the most wanted man in Asia and he was arrested in the Netherlands in January 2021, with a combined effort from 20 enforcement agency around the world. The drug lord is said to be the head of international crime group Sam Gor, also known as ‘The Company’. The organisation comprises five different triads in three different countries, namely 14K Triad, Bamboo Union, Big Circle Boys, Sun Yee On, and Wo Shing Wo.
8. Liow allegedly converted to Islam because of love and he wanted to marry his fiance, who is o Hui descent. Hui is a 10.5 million strong ethnic group that is also the second largest ethnic minority in China.