Filepic of seized banners and posters advertising illegal moneylending activities.
JOHOR BARU: A mother's love for her son knows no bounds but for Hau Pang Cheok, 51, enough is enough after the constant threats she received from loan sharks.
Hau said she "can no longer face the harassment from the Ah Long" resulting from what her son had done.
Hau, a sales assistant, and her husband Ching Fook Soon have made the most painful decision in their life to severe ties with their second son Ching Chuan Kek, 27.
The couple even placed an advertisement in a local Chinese daily on April 6 this year to make known of their decision.
"We have no choice as he (Chuan Kek) is making our life miserable and he is now missing and we do not know his whereabouts, " said Hau at a press conference organised by MCA Public Services and Complaints Bureau chief Jason Teoh here on Tuesday.
Hau said Chuan Kek was last known to be working as a runner or a debt collector with an illegal moneylender.
According to her, the moneylender claimed that her son, who was supposed to collect money from lenders, failed to give him the collections.
"Now he (money lender) wants me to return the money which my son took but I refused as I did not take a single sen from the debts collected," she said.
As a result, her family was harassed by the moneylender's runners and even threw paint at her first son's house in Taman Bukit Indah.
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