Debt collectors mess up Funan food stall

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

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SINGAPORE - Six debt collectors caused a ruckus at the Food Junction foodcourt at Funan DigitaLife Mall during lunchtime last Thursday while demanding payment from a stallholder. When the debt collectors from Double Ace Associates were done, the floor of the Chinese soup stall was littered with empty bowls, styrofoam boxes, a rice cooker and a cash register. A plastic spoon and a plastic container with condiments were thrown into a pot of soup....Mr Cai then left the food court, but when he returned at lunchtime the next day, the debt collectors were there again, this time with a banner that read "Attention. Debt Collection in Process." Police officers and members of the mall management were also present...

It is not a criminal offence to owe money. Those debt collectors behaved like gangsters collecting extortion money.

If a debt is not collected, the next step is legal recourse in the court.

Sending the debt collectors to harass the debtor and commit acts of vandalism, criminal intimidation, destruction of properties, etc is certainly a criminal offence. Are the pappies going to let these debt collectors set a precedent and let all debt collection agencies to harass all debtors in the country?

The SPF should open a case for prosecution against those debt collectors. Otherwise, it is like giving a licence to all debt collection agencies to run wild like monkeys in the name of legal debt collection.

Collect the debt legally and peacefully by all means but not by resorting to behaving like gangsters collecting their extortion money in the 1950s and 1960s from hawkers.


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