‘Defaulter’ faces loan sharks’ wrath
Victim’s house gate locked with mum inside
IPOH: Loan sharks locked the house gate of a supposed defaulter in Lahat, leaving his mother frightened after she woke up from her afternoon nap.
Wong Chiew Kwai, 40, insisted that he had never borrowed money from anyone and pleaded for the harassment to stop.
The factory procurement assistant said a flyer was pasted on his house gate on April 28 with his name and MyKad number, demanding that he pay the debt.
“I was not at home, but my mother was. She was taking a nap and woke up at about 4pm to find the gate locked,” Wong told a press conference held by Perak MCA Public Service and Complaints Bureau chief Jimmy Loh at the Perak MCA headquarters here yesterday.
“On the flyer, I was asked to pay my ‘debt’ within three days,” he said, adding that he had lodged a police report.
Wong said he was also harassed by loan sharks in 2016.
“I first received a call from a loan shark who said I had borrowed money from him.
“Then I started getting more messages from different numbers asking me to pay up,” he said, adding that he was forced to change his phone number.
Wong also said two men came to his house to demand the payment in 2016.
“They said the money was deposited into my bank account. I checked, but it was not true,” he said.
Wong said he suspected that his personal details may have been leaked to the loan sharks by a former colleague at his previous workplace in 2016.
He said the former colleague had attempted to borrow money from him.
During the press conference, Loh called one of the loan sharks who was bothering Wong.
Loh urged the loan shark to show proof that Wong had borrowed money from him or leave him alone.