KUALA LUMPUR: Loyal GISB Holdings (GISBH) leaders were "rewarded" with wives, police investigations show amid the probe into the company.
"That is why in our investigations into several people (leaders), we found they had more wives," said Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Razarudin Husain.
Razarudin said this included its top leader who had more than two wives.
On the other hand, leaders who failed to follow instructions were threatened and barred from leaving the group, he said.
Razarudin said police have received reports from GISBH members that they were threatened when they wanted to quit the group.
He told Utusan Malaysia that the police are still looking into the backgrounds of over 10,000 GISBH members.
Police only learned about the actual numbers of members and their children after documents were seized in a series of raids on GISBH-linked premises nationwide.
"We (police) still need to see who these people are, how they registered as GISBH members and If the registrations are lawful," he said.
Previously, Razarudin said GISBH beliefs were fanatical and that its members idolised their leaders to the point they distorted the true teachings of Islam.
Earlier this month, the police rescued 402 people, some as young as one, from GISBH-linked welfare homes.
Police said the victims had endured various forms of exploitation and abuse, including being sodomised.
GISBH has since denied the allegations of child exploitation and sexual abuse.