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Wednesday October 6, 2010
Cops keep watch on Ah Long posing as bailors in courts
KUALA LUMPUR: Police are investigating loan sharks operating in courts with offers to act as bailors and who lend money to family members of the accused. A team from the federal Commercial Crime Investigations Department (CCID) yesterday went to the KL court to gather more information on these individuals who are believed to be members of a syndicate.
Sources said that so far no arrests have been made and no reports have been lodged with the police nor complaints received by the KL court or courts in Selangor. On Saturday, KL Court director Azizah Mahamud said notices were placed at various locations in the Jalan Duta court complex last week to raise awareness and warn people against dealing with these ‘’bailors’’.
Sources said two “professional bailors’’ used to appear in a Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur to post bail for foreigners accused of various offences. The sources said that in some cases, these foreigners absconded and the bailors would then give excuses that they could not trace the accused.
Some judges, they added, were following the registrar’s advice by not allowing the same person to act as bailor in multiple cases and had even interviewed bailors in open court to ensure they were genuine. Their activities had caused the Registrar of High Court of Malaya to issue a directive on Aug 25 to all court directors in Malaysia for a notice to be put up, warning the public about the operations of these loan sharks.
