Nasi Kandar shakedown: Penang restaurant claims they are being harassed for protection money


GEORGE TOWN: The owner of a famous nasi kandar restaurant here alleges that he and his staff are being harassed for protection money.

Hameediyah Restaurant owner Syed Ibrahim NMA Abdul Sukkoor, 54, claimed that a group led by a man who identified himself as a "Datuk", had asked him to pay money in return for protection.

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