Former restaurant worker at wits end from threats from loan sharks


Perak MCA Public Service and complaints bureau chief Charles Yuen giving a press conference on the illegal money lending platform whereby the perpetrators threatned and extort more payment and even set fire to the victim's family home twice.

IPOH: A former restaurant worker is at her wits end after loan sharks threatened to harm her family and neighbours, despite having settled the "debt" incurred by her 20-year-old son.

Chin Poh Wan, 42, who is currently unemployed, said loan sharks have threatened to kidnap her son and burn down her parents' and neighbours' houses if she did not pay them.

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