PETALING JAYA: Are the authorities seriously looking to nab the culprits behind financial scams and unauthorised use of credit cards? Or are such cases being ignored due to difficulty in tracing the fraudsters, said Malaysia Muslim Consumer Association (PPIM) chief activist Datuk Nadzim Johan.
He said PPIM has received numerous complaints from victims of mule accounts and even bankruptcy cases where the culprits have never been investigated or faced justice.
“We had a case where a 55-year-old former secretary was declared bankrupt after a bank claimed she did not pay an RM80 million loan in her name that was taken some 10 years earlier,” he told theSun.
Nadzim questioned how it was even possible for the bank to approve an RM80 million loan to a secretary with a RM1,500 salary. After years of going back and forth between the insolvency department and the court, the woman was finally released from bankruptcy.
However, the question of where the RM80 million went, who secured the loan under her name, and who profited from it has never been answered.
“Until now, neither the police nor Bank Negara Malaysia has said anything about this case. What’s more, thousands of mule account victims are accused of fraud when their bank accounts were used by third parties to scam people,” he said.
Nadzim claimed that despite overwhelming evidence that mule account owners were also victims, little or no further action was taken against those who illegally used the accounts.
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