OR Malaysian police announced yesterday Saturday that it arrested a total of 355 people as part of an investigation it is conducting into hundreds of attacks of physical and/or sexual abuse of children in reception and hospitality centers in the Asian country.

At the heart of this research is the GISB holdings business group (Global Ikhwan Service and Business Holding), which is accused that in addition to managing these “horror centers”, it had relations with a banned Islamic sect, the Al Arkamwhich is now disbanded.

Among those arrested is the president and CEO of GISB, Mr Nasiruddin Aliand at least 30 employees of the group, always according to the police.

Various locations were raided, including charities, health facilities, Islamic seminaries and homes.

The arrest of 171 people on 9/11 had already been announced, including “ustaz” (religious teachers) and other educators. The police added that at least 402 children were rescued, after searches in 20 homes. Police believe they are children of the group’s employees in Malaysia, its inspector general explained. Razaruddin Hussain.

Initially, the group denied all the accusations and even assured that it did not manage the centers in the states concerned by the investigations. Selaghor and Necari Sebilan (west).

Then Nasiruddin Ali admitted, on September 14, that there had been cases of sexual abuse, “one or two cases of sodomy” in the shelters, but denied that systematic, mass violence was recorded.

According to medical reports, at least 13 children were sexually assaulted, according to Inspector General Hussain.

On Tuesday, he announced the freezing of 96 GISB accounts, containing some $124,000 (€111,000).

The scandal intensifies concern for the fate of children in these homes and for the supervision of charitable organizations in the country.

OR UNICEFhis service UN which is responsible for defending children’s rights, condemned the “unimaginable horror” experienced by the young victims.

These children “will need medical and psychological support for an extended period of time”, he pointed out on Thursday Robert Gassrepresentative of the United Nations Children’s Fund in Malaysia.

The sect Arkam it was dissolved by the authorities in 1994, as the doctrine it proposed was considered deviant, heretical. The GISB group has since been targeted by authorities in the predominantly Muslim country.

In 2011, scandal also broke out when it was revealed that he had created the “Submissive Wives Club”, a group that urged women to submit to their husbands “as if they were prostitutes” so that they would not cheat on them.

On its website, GISB claims to be an Islamic holding group that operates companies such as supermarkets and restaurants in various countries, including Indonesia, Britain and France.