Malaysia loan sharks chain men to wall for months

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian police rescued three men shackled to the wall of a filthy room for two months by illegal moneylenders after failing to repay their debts, an official said Thursday.

Newspapers published photographs of the men wearing soiled clothes and tethered by their necks in heavy iron chains to the wall. Firefighters later used a chain saw to free them.

Police found the men in an empty shop in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday after getting a tip from another man who had recently been held by loan sharks, said a district police official who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to make public statements.

The victims had not been allowed to change clothes, were repeatedly beaten with sticks and fed only bread and water every few days during their captivity, The Star and New Straits Times newspapers reported.



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Yikes.

[Kutjara]

1. Shhhh.

You'll give our credit card companies ideas.

[Downwinder]

2. How about a special wall for Wall Street Bankers.