Police chief Razarudin Husain said that the young care home charges could have been instructed to deny they knew their parents as part of a ploy to gain donations.

The move comes amid concern that they may fall behind in their education, pending the ongoing police probe. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Police said they had arrested 355 people, including religious teachers, and rescued more than 400 children from care homes run by the group.

Police say this is based on the discovery of material such as books and leaflets among those arrested this month.

Malaysian authorities have frozen almost 100 bank accounts linked to an Islamic business group being investigated for suspected child abuse, a senior police official said on Tuesday. Authorities are investigating Global Ikhwan Services and Business (GISB) for allegedly running charity homes from which police last week rescued more than 400 children and youth.

Malaysian police said they have arrested hundreds of suspects as part of an investigation into child abuse at care homes run by an Islamic conglomerate. GISB initially denied the allegations, insisting they did not run the care homes searched in the states of Selangor and Negeri Sembilan.

Malaysian authorities on Thursday arrested the chief executive and other senior managers of an Islamic conglomerate accused of running charity homes where children were allegedly sexually abused, amid a widening police dragnet in the case.

PETALING JAYA - The chairman and the principal of a school in Kuala Pilah, linked to GISB Holdings, a conglomerate embroiled in an alleged child abuse case in Malaysia, have been