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Xiahou Dun
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Thursday October 7, 2010
Artiste threatens suicide after cheating accusation
GEORGE TOWN: An artiste threatened to jump off from a building after she was accused of embezzling more than RM47,000 from a beauty salon which she co-owns with her former boyfriend. The woman, 22, had called up several reporters at 1pm yesterday to tell her side of the story. It was during the press conference at a coffee shop here that she made the threat to jump off a building.
She, however, changed her mind several minutes later and ended the press conference abruptly. Events took a dramatic turn several hours later when the former boyfriend, who is a managing director of a well-known electrical products company, lodged a report at the Queensbay police station. The man, who is in his 40s, claimed that the woman had misappropriated the money. When met by reporters, he said that he had known the woman for a year.
Both of them opened a beauty salon in Bayan Baru in November last year before parting ways six months ago. He said the woman, who had a cameo appearance in a Taiwanese series, had requested her customers to make payments via credit card at her friend’s restaurant on Jalan Tunku Kudin last month. He suspected something amiss when the restaurant owner issued a RM20,000 cheque in the name of the woman and not the beauty salon.
“On Tuesday, I was told that the restaurant owner had wanted to issue another cheque for RM27,488 to the woman. “Immediately I put a stop to the transaction,” he said, adding that this could be the reason why the woman had reacted in such a manner. He said he would leave the matter to the police since he had lodged a police report.
