Zahid: Bankruptcy release for 50,000 individuals in five years


KUALA LUMPUR: The government aims to release about 50,000 individuals from bankruptcy status in the next five years, says Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (pic).

The Deputy Prime Minister said for a start, 20,000 borrowers who had been declared bankrupt on technicality or for being a social guarantor would be free of the status in one year.

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