Loan sharks are targeting innocent homeowners after some debtors began using fake addresses to avoid being tracked down.
MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong highlighted the issue during a press conference on Tuesday (July 22), citing the case of a 57-year-old woman.
00:00Some debtors have begun using fake residential addresses to avoid detection by loan sharks,
00:07leading to innocent individuals becoming unintended targets of harassment.
00:12This issue was highlighted by MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head
00:17Datuk Sri Michael Chong during a press conference on Tuesday
00:20where he was joined by several loan shark victims.
00:23One of such victims, Gan, age 57, recounted her ordeal after discovering her home had been chained up by loan sharks.
00:33A letter left at her doorstep claimed that an individual named Chung Ankit was residing there and owed money to loan sharks.
00:42Gan was adamant that she did not know such a person.
00:45What shocked her further was that photocopies of the debtor's identity card listed her home address.
00:51When she contacted the loan shark to clarify the matter,
00:55she was told to pay 5,000 ringgit, allegedly to settle a 300 ringgit loan taken by the debtor.
01:03Gan said the harassment escalated when her house was locked again on July 9th,
01:08prompting her to file a police report on July 10th.
01:12Following the report, a suspect was arrested after dashcam footage captured the vehicle used by the perpetrators.
01:19CCTV, they managed to capture the car number.
01:24And the police have also arrested, arrested, this alone, arrested.
01:31And he was charged in court and paid 4,000 fine.
01:36He only paid 4,000 fine, 4,000.
01:40Gan added that letters from purported banks had also been sent to her home,
01:56further suggesting that her address was being misused by the debtor for fraudulent purposes.
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