JOHOR BARU, April 23 -- A 24-year-old workshop owner is being hounded by loan sharks to settle the debts taken by his estranged father whom he has not seen for a decade.

Samson Loo Jia Tao said he started receiving the threats from multiple mobile phone numbers about two weeks ago where debt collectors demanded that he pay off all his father's debts, believed to be more than RM100,000.

"In the past two weeks, on average I receive about 30 calls and text messages daily from the loan sharks who threatened me and my family.

"So far the Ah Longs have not acted in any physical manner and have only verbally threatened that they will damage my house in Taman Sierra Perdana and my workshop in Taman Mount Austin.

"However, I am worried as my 5...