Loan sharks attack family after man flees with RM350,000


JOHOR BARU: He told everyone that his father has brain cancer and needed money for treatment. But as soon as he raised RM350,000 from family, friends and loan sharks, he disappeared with the money.

His mother Tan Choon Hong, 56, said she was not surprised because her eldest son Koo Mun Chang, 34, was always borrowing money from her after she helped him open a sports apparel shop in Skudai.

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