Visits to the investment scheme’s website, www.jjptr.com, show a message reading: “Site detail(s) is restricted to authorised user only. We are currently having meetings with international IBS prior to new system launching, in approximately 3 days.”
Above the message is the option to either register or log in. Below it, meanwhile, is a list of current agent ID numbers for countries and regions from which JJPTR investors hail: Australia, Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, Canada, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, New Zealand, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia.
Investors were unable to access the site since last Tuesday, receiving a message saying “Whoops, looks like something went wrong” whenever they tried.
One of them told The Star that he could now access his account again and that all his investment information was still there.
Tuesday also marked the last known time that JJPTR founder Johnson Lee was known to have been held by Taiping police. Following that, his remand order expired and the request to extend it was turned down.
His lawyer G Jaya Prem meanwhile has denied talk that Lee left the country, claiming that his client is only avoiding the public eye.
According to Jaya, Lee still has to report to the Taiping district police headquarters on a regular basis.
Lee’s investment scheme is alleged to have cheated thousands of Malaysians of up to RM1.7 billion.
It gained widespread media attention last month after it claimed that its funds had been siphoned off by “hackers” although police said they found no evidence that JJPTR’s accounts had been hacked.
On May 16, a Bukit Aman CID team arrested Lee and two associates in Klang.
The arrests followed a raid of eight JJPTR offices in Penang on May 12, by police, Bank Negara, the Companies Commission of Malaysia, Inland Revenue Board, National Revenue Recovery Enforcement Team and Cyber Security.
The trio were remanded until May 19 in Klang and released before they were re-arrested and transferred to Penang, where the initial police reports were made against them.
After Penang police failed to get a remand order against the trio, police re-arrested them and transferred them to Taiping, where another police report had been made.
JJPTR’s money game investment scheme was established in 2015, and promised returns as high as 20% a month to members.