Kuala Lumpur High Court Judicial Commissioner Roz Mawar Rozain ruled that the preventive detention of Alvin Goh was unlawful.

PETALING JAYA: A businessman who had been detained for a year and a half under the Prevention of Crime Act (Poca) for alleged links to an online gambling syndicate has been released.
Kuala Lumpur High Court Judicial Commissioner Roz Mawar Rozain on Wednesday ruled that the preventive detention of Alvin Goh was unlawful.
The Federal Court had earlier rejected Goh's habeas corpus application against his remand order issued by Poca twice since November 2020.
Goh again challenged the two-year detention order with a separate habeas corpus application, which was granted by the High Court on Wednesday.
According to Malaysiakini, his lawyer, Marcus Lee, confirmed that Goh had been released in Simpang, Johor.
Li said the court found that, based on the affidavit from the authorities, there was no element of organized violence.
In addition to Lee, Goh's legal team includes former Federal Court judges Gopal Sri Ram, Gobind Singh Deo, Jacky Loi, PG Cyril, and Lim Jin Wen.
Senior federal lawyers Muhammad Sinti and Farah Ezlin Yusop Khan represented the Home Office.
In November 2020, the Home Office's Crime Prevention Commission handed Goh and another businessman, Zaidi Kanapiah, and two police officers a two-year detention order under Poca for being part of an online gambling syndicate.
Zaidi, better known as Addy Kana, and the two officers won their appeal in federal court challenging their detention earlier this year. The court ruled that the detention was done in bad faith.
Meanwhile, Goh and his brother Yeong Hui were charged with seven counts of money laundering amounting to RM2.14 million.
They are accused of obtaining the proceeds of illegal activities from two Chinese nationals, Wang Hangang and Feng Chuang, between September 9 and November 11, 2019.