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Melaka woman tries to settle loan shark debt by faking own kidnapping | Scoop
A 55-year-old woman has been arrested after admitting that she staged her own kidnapping to in an attempt to settle loan shark debts. – Scoop file pic, Otober 12, 2024
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Melaka woman tries to settle loan shark debt by faking own kidnapping

55-year-old sent message to family demanding RM70,000 as ransom, found at petrol station surau after going missing when son dropped her off at supermarket

Bernama
Updated
11:45 AM MYT

 

MELAKA – A woman resorted to fabricating a kidnapping story, demanding a ransom of RM70,000 from her family in a desperate attempt to pay off her debts to an “ah long” or loan sharks. 

Melaka Tengah police chief Christopher Patit said that the 55-year-old woman was arrested around 3.30am yesterday after she was found at a surau near a petrol station in Taman Sri Maharani, Muar, Johor. 

“The woman’s 22-year-old son reported her missing after he received a message from his mother’s phone, stating that she had been kidnapped and demanding RM70,000. 

“Before that, the woman had asked her son to drop her off at a supermarket in Peringgit at 11.15am. She exited the car to pay her phone bill but vanished, prompting her son to search the area for more than an hour,” he said in a statement yesterday. 

Christopher added that the woman admitted to staging the kidnapping in a desperate bid to settle approximately RM15,000 owed to ten Ah Longs. 

He said that the woman claimed she took a bus from Melaka Sentral to Muar but, due to insufficient funds, was forced to use the surau at the petrol station as temporary accommodation. 

“The woman also admitted to composing all the WhatsApp messages herself, and police have seized two phones for further investigation. 

“She has been remanded for six days starting yesterday to assist with the investigation under Section 363 of the Penal Code,” he said. 

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