The Sun reported that Bukit Aman’s Criminal Investigation Department is working closely with British intelligence on this.
Richard Huckle, 30, from Ashford in Kent, has admitted in court to committing 71 of 91 charges of sexually abusing 23 children from mainly poor communities in Kuala Lumpur. His sentencing is expected to conclude Friday.
However, police believe he could have abused about 200 children, aged between months and 12 years, from 2006 to 2014
The Sun report said Bukit Aman’s Sexual, Women and Child Investigation principal assistant director ACP Jenny Ong Chin Lan said Britain’s National Crime Agency had only informed them of the incidents about a month ago.
“However, the NCA refused to reveal further information as the case had gone to court. My department will continue to press them for more information,” she told the Sun.
Last month, Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar had said they had recently formed a child cyber sexual investigation unit in an effort to fight paedophiles and child sex offenders who preyed on children online.
Huckle gained access to the children in Kuala Lumpur while posing as a Christian English teacher doing good deeds. He first visited Malaysia on a teaching gap year when he was 18 or 19 and went on to groom children while doing voluntary work, according to reports.
According to a BBC report Huckle wrote a paedophile manual called “Paedophiles And Poverty: Child Lover Guide”, as well as a series of notes in which he detailed rapes and various sex acts.
The encrypted manual was on Huckle’s laptop ready for publication on the “dark web”.
At his first plea hearing at the Old Bailey, it took more than an hour to read out all the charges.
According to one charge, Huckle had said: “I’d hit the jackpot, a 3yo girl as loyal to me as my dog and nobody seemed to care.”
The Guardian reported that his laptop also contained a “Pedopoints” ledger, a game he devised awarding himself different points for 15 different levels of depravity on children, which he rated from “basic” to “hardcore”, and which he also wrote about on a paedophile website.
The report said that on paedophile forums, he boasted: “Impoverished kids are definitely much, much easier to seduce than middle-class western kids; I still plan to publish a guide on this subject.” He said poorer families were impressed by his “high status”.
He targeted and groomed the children of deprived families, impressing them with his “relative wealth and status as a westerner”, prosecutor Brian O’Neill told the court.
Huckle had attempted to crowdfund his abuse online using bitcoin, posting footage of a three-year-old girl and making 105 per cent of the target funding, the court heard.