Seberang Perai Tengah district police chief Shafee Abd Samad said all those issued compounds were locals aged between 20 and 60 years while a Bangladeshi man and a Vietnamese woman were arrested for not having valid travel documents during the operation.

“The entertainment centre provided several karaoke rooms for visitors and some of them were detained after organising a birthday party there,” he said in a statement, here, today.

He said the 60-year-old Datuk Seri was detained with 17 others while celebrating a woman’s birthday inside a special room at the premises.

Police also detained a cowherd and his five-month pregnant wife with several other individuals at a different room.

“All 32 locals were compounded for breaching (CMCO) SOPs while the Bangladeshi man, who was also a worker there, and the Vietnamese woman who came with her boyfriend, were detained for further investigations,” he said.