KUALA LUMPUR: A woman from Seri Kembangan is pleading for loan sharks to stop harassing her family after her husband absconded overseas, leaving behind unpaid debts and a trail of threats.
The 29-year-old administrative executive who wanted to be known as Choo, said her 26-year-old husband was sent to Hong Kong by his company on June 18 and was supposed to return on July 16.
However, he has been missing since and has not contacted his family.
"He didn't tell me about the business trip, only my father-in-law. I only found out about his return date through his company," she said at a press conference on Wednesday (30 July), accompanied by MCA public services and complaints department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong.
She said that from June 20, her family began receiving threatening calls from loan sharks, claiming her husband had borrowed RM2,000 and now owed them RM8,000 with interest. The callers threatened to splash red paint on their house and set it on fire.
"We've been married for over a year and have a 15-month-old daughter. Despite asking him many times, he never told us why he needed to borrow money," she said.
She added that the loan sharks also shared personal details and photos of her and her family on social media. A police report has been lodged.
She added that earlier this year, her family had helped her husband settle a RM100,000 debt.
Meanwhile, a 48-year-old woman from Cheras is also seeking help after her family was harassed over her son's borrowings from loan sharks.
The woman known as Wong, a labourer, said her 26-year-old son, a salesman, had taken out loans in the past, which the family had helped to pay off, namely RM5,000 in 2019 and RM22,500 in April 2025.
She said Chong had assisted in negotiating both settlements.
After the second incident, the son moved out of the family home.
However, in June 2025, the family began receiving threatening messages, including a video of a car on fire.
The mother later discovered that her son had borrowed an unknown amount of money from loan sharks again in July 2025.
