“I even had to find work as an e-hailing driver as my savings are gone,” he told a press conference organised by the Malaysian Chinese Association’s public services and complaints department head Michael Chong in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
Wong said that shortly after the debts were paid, his son went to a rehabilitation centre for gamblers and appeared to turn over a new leaf.
“However, on June 2, I discovered that someone had posted a photo of me and my wife on Facebook, with the caption ‘wanted’,” he said.
“I also received a call from my other son, telling me that an ah long (illegal moneylender) had contacted him, saying his brother had a 12,000 ringgit debt with them. The ah long threatened to hire a gang to come after…
