Wednesday June 24, 2009
Amorous men and their fast cars are soon parted
Compiled by LESTER KONG, NG CHENG YEE and A. RAMAN
CAR theft syndicates are employing sexy women to get amorous businessmen to part with their luxury vehicles, reported Harian Metro.
During the past six months, about 10 businessmen have lost their cars after being seduced by these women, who persuaded the victims to lend them expensive cars. The women would then deliver the cars to the syndicates, the daily reported.
The crime usually went unreported by the victim, for fear of affecting his image or family life, making it the perfect crime for the syndicate.
However, this ploy was revealed when one of the victims, businessman Ramli Che Mat, 36, reported his car stolen after he lent it to a friend.
Ramli said he lent his Toyota Caldina to his friend in January with the intention of selling it to him.
“Without telling me, he let his ‘girlfriend’ use it,” he said.
Ramli was alerted when the bank called to inform him about missing the hire-purchase payment for two months.
He immediately asked his friend about the car and they both visited the woman at her Setapak home. She claimed the bank had repossessed the car.
However, a call to the bank revealed there was no order for the vehicle to be repossessed, said Ramli.
He and his friend then went to confront the woman again but found that she had disappeared. She did not answer her mobile phone either.
“However, she did send an SMS that sounded like a challenge to us to lodge a police report,” he said.
Subang Jaya police chief ACP Zainal Rashid Abu Bakar confirmed that a report had been lodged on the matter.
Manohara wants to lose weight without exercising or dieting
> Manohara Odelia Pinot, the wife of Kelantan prince Tengku Muhammad Fakhry, wants to reduce her weight but not through exercise or dieting, reported Kosmo!, quoting an Indonesian news agency.
However, the former model declined to reveal what her weight loss regime would be, while admitting she was about 14kg overweight.
She said she wanted to get back to her ideal weight as she could no longer fit into her jeans.
Mano, as she is called affectionately, said she aimed to get back to her ideal weight in two months.
> Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a sub-heading, it denotes a separate news item.
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