{"id":1754,"date":"2022-04-04T02:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T02:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2022-04-04T02:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T02:29:56","slug":"loan-shark-gang-busted-in-bayan-lepas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/2022\/04\/04\/loan-shark-gang-busted-in-bayan-lepas\/","title":{"rendered":"Loan shark gang busted in Bayan Lepas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ALIK PULAU, April 4 (Bernama) &#8212;\u00a0Police busted a loan shark gang following the arrest of\u00a0eight men in a Bayan Lepas raid for offering loans without a licence on Friday\u00a0(April 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barat Daya district police chief Supt Kamarul Rizal Jenal said the eight men in their 20s to 30s were detained by a team from the Penang Commercial Crime Investigation Department (JSJK) together with the Barat Daya district police headquarters, based on intelligence and public information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Based on the preliminary investigation, apart from offering loans without a licence with high interest, they also threaten\u00a0victims who failed to repay the loan,&#8221; he said when contacted today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said following the arrest of the eight men, police confiscated 19 mobile phones, 15 bank cards, three cheque books, eight cheques in the name of the borrowers, a list of borrowers\u2019 names, four cars and 14 copies of identity cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the eight men were being remanded to assist in the investigation under Section 5 (2) of the Moneylenders Act 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALIK PULAU, April 4 (Bernama) &#8212;\u00a0Police busted a loan shark gang following the arrest of\u00a0eight men in a Bayan Lepas raid for offering loans without a licence on Friday\u00a0(April 1). Barat Daya district police chief Supt Kamarul Rizal Jenal said the eight men in their 20s to 30s were detained by a team from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,67,33],"tags":[501,35,502],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-business","category-crime","category-malaysia-news","tag-loan-shark","tag-malaysia","tag-moneylending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}