KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 — City police acted swiftly to close down a “cure-all” centre and detained the “magic doctor” behind it along with four others following an expose by The Malay Mail yesterday.
City deputy police chief Datuk Amar Singh confirmed a Pakistani doctor, his Japanese director and three employees of Bioresonance Health Solutions Center located in Pekeliling Business Centre here were arrested yesterday.
“We picked up the doctor and director as they were about to board a bus from Corus Hotel in Jalan Ampang, to Johor Baru at about 8.30am. We believe they were on their way to open another centre there,” said Amar Singh.
A team of 20 plainclothes policemen then proceeded to raid the centre and detained the three employees.
During the 9.40am raid, police seized several treatment equipment, log books, company files and patients’ records.
The team, headed by Amar Singh, also recorded statements from patients who were at the centre during the raid to see if they were merely duped or planted by the centre to make the centre look legitimate for newcomers.
Amar Singh said initial investigations revealed the doctor was not registered with the Health Ministry and had been operating since 2011 without a work permit.
He said the company business was listed as “food and beverages, general trading and business management consulting” and Bioresonance treatment which is not recognised in Malaysia.
“This doctor has been giving false hope and took advantage of patients who are really sick and desperate to be cured. This is cheating.”
The case will be investigated under Section 420 of the Penal Code for cheating and under Private Healthcare Facilities Act and Services Act 1998.
The doctor and director will be remanded until Saturday while the three employees were released after police recorded their statements.
Checks at the clinic revealed the staff manning the centre had no medical background and only went through a three-week training session with the Pakistani doctor.
The staff would normally conduct the treatment as the “magic doctor” was only available between 2pm and 5pm daily except Monday, when the centre is closed.
