‘I was put under a spell’, says lass duped of family’s savings

KUALA LUMPUR: Constant sweet-talking convinced a young employee to give up her family's savings to her former employer.

And not long after doing so, her boss closed the business and disappeared without a trace.

The victim, identified only as 24-year old “Leong”, said that she was initially hired in April as an admin clerk for a furniture business in Semenyih.

Her boss, a lady in her 30s, gained her trust and started sweet-talking her into loaning her money to the shop.

Leong, who was present Monday at a press conference organised by MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong, insisted that she had been “put under a spell” by her ex-employer.

“She gave away all of her mother's fixed deposit savings, around RM 56,000, in three transactions. Then on April 29, her boss was nowhere to be found.

“Leong later learned that her other two colleagues had been duped as well,” he alleged.

Chong added that the money was originally meant for her mother's cancer treatment.

A police report was lodged on May 17, according to Leong.