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Datuk, Datuk Seri, Tan Sri – these titles are up for sale by fraudsters, but some individuals also intentionally use unrecognised foreign titles here even though it isn’t allowed. A newly set up association wants to weed out the fakes by registering legal Datukships in Malaysia.
MELAKA: State police have completed their investigations into 30 individuals for using fake honorary titles conferred by unrecognised sultanates locally as well as from neighbouring countries.
MELAKA: Some 120 individuals who received bogus titles last year are now on the radar of police here following the arrest of three individuals including a husband and wife. Melaka police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Abdul Majid Mohd Ali said the trio, aged between 43 to 57, were middlemen. He said they were part of an unrecognised organisation known as the congregation of “Datuks” (GDMM), which had been active for the past two years. “GDMM held an investiture ceremony at a leading hotel here on behalf of ‘Sultan Kerajaan Indragiri’ in August 2020. “GDMM was led by a 43-year-old busines...