Bank to pay couple over lost jewellery


KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has ordered a bank to give a couple RM800,000 to compensate them for about RM1.5mil worth of antique jewellery that went missing from their safe deposit box.

Businessman Lee Yaw Lin, 46, and housewife Choo Yoke Peng, 40, sued United Overseas Bank (M) Bhd, demanding RM1,480,514 over the loss of their valuables and an additional RM2mil in aggravated or exemplary damages.

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