Saw this article in today's star online and thought I will share it here. Even though this group of loan sharks shows some human side of them,but not all are like that and so the moral of the story is never get involved with ah long., because you might not be that lucky as this lady.
Loan sharks listen to man’s wife
By ZALINAH NOORDIN
GEORGE TOWN: A group of loan sharks, in a rare show of diplomacy, sat down with the wife of a man who had borrowed money from them and listened to her side of the story.
The woman, a marketing and sales executive, who only wanted to be known as Lim, said the men were not aggressive towards her and only said they would wait for her husband to return after learning he was not in the country.
She said the loan sharks who came to her apartment in Tanjung Bungah had actually shown some empathy, unlike others she had read about who use ruthless means to get their money back.
Lim, 37, said her husband left her a note on March 1 to say he was leaving for China to start a business there to settle his debts.
She said the Ah Long had told her that her husband had borrowed RM14,000 from them.
She learnt that her husband had initially borrowed RM30,000 from the same people but the amount was settled by his parents.
“I was surprised they understood my situation and told me they would wait for him (Lim's husband) to come back,” she said at a press conference at the MCA public complaints bureau here yesterday.
“All I want is for my husband to return to pay off the debts and the housing loan payments that had not been paid since last October,” she said, adding the apartment was about to be sealed off by the bank.
The bureau's deputy chief Lim Thoon Deong said Lim's husband told him that he needed more time to save up enough money to pay off the debts.
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