PETALING JAYA: Syndicates offering fake datukships are able to swindle their victims of millions of ringgit by being very convincing and operating with “authority”. “The victims actually believed that an investiture would be held in a five-star hotel in Kuala Lumpur. “However, when the victims realised the Sultan’s absence on that day, the excuse given by the tricksters would be that the Sultan was unwell. State police chief Datuk Dr Ab Rahman Ismail said a 66-year-old man not related to the Kelantan royal family managed to convince his victims otherwise. In Sabah, opaque syndicates, with members close to the Sulu Sultanate, operate the selling of titles, according to the Sabah Suluk Cooperation Council.

Source: The Star March 21, 2017 23:37 UTC