Police busted a foreign online shopping scam after detaining 23 Taiwanese in a raid on a luxury bungalow in the Batu Feringghi area last Saturday.

Penang police chief Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain said a team from the state Commercial Crime Investigation Department raided the three-storey luxury bungalow at 6.30pm following a public tip-off.

"We arrested 17 men and six women, all Taiwanese aged 19 to 48, in the bungalow, and initial investigation showed...