According to The Straits Times, one of the women was from Singapore. She had befriended him online through a dating app.

It said the woman was asked to travel to Malaysia, where compromising videos she had sent him earlier were used to extort S$200,000 (RM600,000) from her between February and October last year.

Unable to take the intimidation any longer, she reported the matter to police on Oct 19 last year.

She told police that when she came to Malaysia to meet the man, he sent a male driver to pick her. The man threatened to circulate the videos if she did not have sex with the driver and she was too afraid to disobey him.

Police found out that the driver was in fact the man she had befriended on the dating app.

With the help of the Malaysian police, the man was arrested on Thursday. His nationality and where the arrest was made was not disclosed.

Police now believe the man is involved in similar reported cases involving other female victims.

If convicted for extortion, the man can be jailed for between two and seven years, and caned.