These seaside apartments were a ghost city - then police say scammers moved in

The briefing

Malaysia's Forest City was pitched as "paradise" but last month police raided it over alleged scam operations

What is at stake

The implications of these seaside apartments were a ghost city - then police say scammers moved in will become clearer as more details emerge from BBC.

The background

What precedes these seaside apartments were a ghost city - then police say scammers moved in, according to BBC, is a sequence of decisions that narrowed the range of possible outcomes.

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Signal Ledger view

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of seaside, apartments, ghost, city, then: Malaysia's Forest City was pitched as "paradise" but last month police raided it over alleged scam operations.