KUALA LUMPUR: After years of paying off her son’s debts, a mother was forced to publicly disown him after loan sharks started targeting her and her neighbours.
Lim Sook Fun, aged 64, did so at a press conference yesterday organised by MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong at Wisma MCA here.
The retired woman tearfully recounted her ordeal.
Having already paid off RM70,000 of her 40-year-old son’s gambling debts in 2022 and 2023, she expressed her frustration at his continued irresponsible behaviour.
“I am an old woman living off my retirement funds. I don’t have much to spare.
“I have given him so many chances but yet he refuses to change,” she said as she broke down in tears.
She added that her two younger sons had also been hounded by loan sharks who were pressuring them to pay the debts.
According to Lim, the loan sharks were now demanding an additional RM11,000.
Despite her attempts to explain her situation – and that she has had no contact with her eldest son, Liu Yong Zhi, for months – the harassment continued.
The most recent incident occurred on April 21 where loan sharks threw red paint at her house and neighbouring houses in Taman Intan Baiduri here.
A total of eight houses were affected.
“I don’t even know how much he owes. There could even be multiple groups that he had borrowed from,” she said.
Chong said that loan sharks had come by her house two times before, with flyers about her son given out to the neighbourhood during the first visit.
“Police reports on the April 21 incident have been lodged by several parties. I urge the neighbours who have not done so to do so,” he said.
Four neighbours whose houses were also hit with red paint also attended the press conference, and all confirmed that they had lodged police reports on the matter.
Chong added that CCTVs caught the paint-throwing act and the footage has been forwarded to the police as well.
