Koreans who ran illegal gambling sites from an office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, have been arrested here following extradition from Malaysia, police said Thursday. 

Thirty-seven people from two gambling organizations were extradited from Malaysia between July 9 and Wednesday in the largest such operation.

A man surnamed Lee and nine others are suspected of having made profits totaling 19.2 billion won ($16.3 million) by operating an illegal gambling site that handled about 384 billion won since March 2015. A man surnamed Noh and 28 others are suspected of running several illegal gambling sites from April 2017.

According to the National Police Agency, the extradition was made possible through close partnership among the Korean police, Korean Embassy in Malaysia and Malaysian police.

It asked Malaysian authorities to trace members of the organization running illegal gambling sites and dispatched an investigation team there late last month. Through the joint operation with some 50 Malaysian counterparts, police apprehended the suspects and confiscated some 25 computers and 40 mobile phones.

(laeticia.ock@heraldcorp.com)