The supervisor, who only wished to be known as Ng, said his mother, Lee, had borrowed RM30,000 from loan sharks six years ago to financially support her “toy boy”, who is currently 29 years old.

Lee, a widow, had previously withdrawn her personal savings and EPF totalling RM100,000 for her “toy boy”, whom FMT is only identifying as Yeo.

Ng said he had previously helped his mother settle her debts and made her promise to sever all ties with Yeo.

However, she carried on with her affair and continued to support Yeo financially.

Two weeks ago, Ng said he found out that Lee had sold her car to partially pay off a RM45,000 debt she had racked up from five loan sharks.

“She borrows from Ah Longs but doesn’t have the money to pay them back.

“So these loan sharks come to our house searching for her and it has made us feel unsafe.”

When confronted on Sept 6, Lee told Ng that she was pressured to buy expensive items, including five iPhones, after Yeo threatened to harm her family if she refused.

“So, I have discussed this with my siblings. We do not have the capacity to help shoulder this burden any more. We hope to sever all ties with her,” said Ng.

Ng said Lee lodged a police report on Sept 10. Both of them then met with MCA public services and complaints department chief Michael Chong.

Yeo denied threatening his “sugar mummy” and her family when contacted by Chong. He failed to turn up at the MCA headquarters despite promising to do so to resolve the matter.

And yesterday, Lee ran away from home.

’I don’t want to be my brother’s keeper’

In the other case, Ah Mun, a consultant, said he wanted to cut ties with his youngest brother, identified as Ah Keong, to avoid further harassment from loan sharks.

Ah Mun said that two weeks ago, he was informed by another brother that Ah Keong had borrowed RM30,000 from loan sharks and had given these Ah Long their contacts.

Since then, the family has been receiving calls and messages, with threats from strangers demanding they settle Ah Keong’s debts.

“Last Saturday, two men parked in front of our house and created a commotion. They then sent me a picture of my house on WhatsApp,” he said, adding that he immediately lodged a police report out of fear for his safety.

Chong, who has often in his long career been asked to settle these Ah Long issues, said to date, he had received 237 complaints involving loan sharks with total debts amounting to RM21,600,000.

Out of these 237 cases, 162 were male victims and 75 were female victims.