Banker cheated by contractor awarded RM25,000
Tuesday, 5 Mar 2019
by venesa devi
Leong showing photos of her house that was partially renovated. The contractor hired for the job disappeared after receiving more than 90% of the payment
JOHOR BARU: A bank manager was awarded the maximum amount of RM25,000 by the Consumer Claims Tribunal when the respondent to her claim failed to turn up.
Kym Leong, 35, was granted RM25,000 out of the RM47,504 compensation she sought from the contractor she hired to renovate her new home in Masai.
She lodged the claim when the contractor went missing after she had paid more than 90% of renovation costs.
“I started engaging with the contractor in June last year and made the first payment on the same month.
“A total of RM74,172 was paid in the span of six months since he started working for me as he consistently asked for money to buy materials,” she said when met after the tribunal ruling.
Leong added that since January this year, the contractor had stopped coming to the house and was nowhere to be
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“I later found out that he had also stolen the original window frame of my house as well as the access card and keys to the house,” she alleged.
She added that the work completed on her house was valued at only RM26,667.
Tribunal president Rashidah Abu Bakar ordered the contractor to return RM25,000 to Leong within 14 days, failing which it would be a criminal offence.
She added that although the total loss was higher, the tribunal’s jurisdiction was limited to RM25,000 and below.
In a separate case, a 30-year-old electrician was awarded RM3,000 from the tribunal when a car dealer he found online went missing after receiving half the payment for a secondhand Perodua Kelisa.
Dini Naim Nordeen said that he found the dealer online and was convinced that the business was legitimate as he saw there was an address for the shop on its profile.
“The person I was talking to also did not show any suspicious signs; hence I decided to make payment for the deposit a few days later.
“The dealer then told me to meet him at his shop the next day and I was shocked to find that the address was fake and that it was actually the address of a car accessory shop,” he said.
He added that he made a police report on the same day and was advised to make a claim at the consumer tribunal here.
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“I later found out that he had also stolen the original window frame of my house as well as the access card and keys to the house,” she alleged.
She added that the work completed on her house was valued at only RM26,667.
Tribunal president Rashidah Abu Bakar ordered the contractor to return RM25,000 to Leong within 14 days, failing which it would be a criminal offence.
She added that although the total loss was higher, the tribunal’s jurisdiction was limited to RM25,000 and below.
In a separate case, a 30-year-old electrician was awarded RM3,000 from the tribunal when a car dealer he found online went missing after receiving half the payment for a secondhand Perodua Kelisa.
Dini Naim Nordeen said that he found the dealer online and was convinced that the business was legitimate as he saw there was an address for the shop on its profile.
“The person I was talking to also did not show any suspicious signs; hence I decided to make payment for the deposit a few days later.
“The dealer then told me to meet him at his shop the next day and I was shocked to find that the address was fake and that it was actually the address of a car accessory shop,” he said.
He added that he made a police report on the same day and was advised to make a claim at the consumer tribunal here.
Read more at https://ift.tt/2NKKiqS
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