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(Kuala Lumpur, 21st) A Chinese youth owed a loan shark, which led to his parents being harassed for debt collection. The latter even received a death prediction from the loan shark, threatening that if they did not pay back the money, their son would be "forced" to commit suicide. Unexpectedly, a few days later, they really received the sad news that their son had committed suicide by jumping off a building! What's worse is that after the youth was suspected to have been forced to commit suicide by the loan shark, the loan shark still did not give up and continued to send errand boys to the deceased's parents' home to throw petrol bombs and set fire to the house. He also harassed and threatened them day and night, making the parents who lost their beloved son restless. The parents of the deceased, Mr. Ho and Mrs. Ho, held a press conference this morning accompanied by DAP Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng and his assistant Lai Jun Quan, emphasizing that their son had fallen to his death and hoped that the loan sharks would stop harassing their family.
Mr Ho (52 years old) said that his youngest son told him on December 17 last year that he saw on Facebook that his second brother, Ho Wenjie, who was working in Singapore, owed a loan shark. He then called his second son to verify. "My son told me that he did owe a group of loan sharks in Singapore 500 Singapore dollars (about RM1,648), and said that the money was used for daily expenses. As for the rest of the people who claimed to be loan sharks to collect debts, they were all scammers." The loan sharks warned their parents that their son would "seek death". A few days later, the Chinese youth really fell to his death. He said that he thought his son could handle the matter alone, so he did not ask too much. Unexpectedly, on December 19, he suddenly received calls from several loan sharks to collect debts. He tried to contact his son, but he lost contact with his son. On the next day, a group of loan sharks said that his son would commit suicide by jumping off a building soon. Mr Ho revealed that they immediately called his son's roommate in Singapore, but the other party said that his son had left at 4 pm that day and never returned to the dormitory. The Singapore police informed him that his son had left the country that day. "Only on the 21st of last month did a coffin carrier suddenly tell me that my son had passed away in a hospital in Johor Bahru after falling from a height. That's when I realized that my son had left us." He pointed out that he didn't expect that after his son's death, the loan sharks would not stop. Not only did they threaten and harass them through phone calls every day, but they also sent runners to throw petrol bombs and burn their house on the 18th of this month, which made them very troubled. He said that his son was a quiet and honest person. These loan sharks claimed to have borrowed money from his son, but never produced any evidence. He hoped that they would stop harassing his family.