He says this follows from the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the loss of territory in Syria.
Malaysia will not rule out the probability of Isis shifting its operation to the South East Asian region following the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an attack in Syria last October.
“There are also growing threats from returning foreign terrorist fighters, online radicalisation, and lone-wolf attacks,” he said at the Plenary Session of 13th Asean Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime and its related meetings in Bangkok today. Meanwhile, Muhyiddin said Malaysia had taken steps to fully utilise the Interpol Database on “Stolen and Lost Travel Document” to screen incoming travellers to stop criminals or terrorists from entering the country.
Sharing its efforts to stop money laundering and counter-terrorism financing, Muhyiddin said Malaysia has taken necessary measures including the launch of Malaysia Financial Intelligence Network, which is a public-private partnership between the Financial Intelligence Unit, the Royal Malaysia Police and financial institutions.
The mass killings grabbed headlines in May 2015 when police discovered 139 graves and 106 bodies believed to be Rohingyas and 29 illegal immigrant detention camps deep in the jungles of Bukit Genting Perah and Bukit Wang Burma, a few hundred metres from the Malaysia-Thai border in Wang Kelian. Muhyiddin said Malaysia is committed to fully support actions and measures to combat transnational crime at the national, regional and international level.
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