High Court quashes Poca detention against Alvin Goh

Businessperson Goh Leong Yeong has been released two days ago after being detained for one and a half years under the Prevention of Crime Act 1959 (Poca) over alleged links to online gambling.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court judicial commissioner Roz Mawar Rozain on Wednesday ruled that the preventive detention against the businessperson, also known as Alvin Goh, was unlawful.

Back in November 2020, the High Court...