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KOTA KINABALU: Eight people, including a woman, were detained by the police for their involvement in loan sharking or “Ah Long” activities in Sandakan.
Sabah Police Deputy Commissioner Datuk Mazli Mazlan said on Friday (December 18) that the arrests were made following a police report filed by a 38-year-old former restaurant attendant who was allegedly threatened by one of the suspects.
This was after the victim failed to repay RM800 borrowed in September.
He said that four of the suspects confronted the victim and demanded that he pay them 1,600 ringgit around 11 a.m. on December 15.
“It was double the amount of the loan taken by the victim,” he told a press conference at the Kepayan state police headquarters here.
Mazli said the victim was unable to make the payment and one of the suspects threatened to stab him with scissors.
The victim, who feared for her life, filed a police report with the Sandakan police on the same day.
He said police arrested the eight suspects on Wednesday (December 16) during a series of raids.
Police also seized 11 mobile phones, contract letters, documents, notebooks, cash and other items believed to have been used by the group in its illegal activities.
Mazli said the suspects have been detained for four days and investigated under Section 5 (2) of the Lenders Act of 1951 and Section 506 of the Penal Code for criminal intimidation.
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