23 June, 2007
POLICE have identified the two bogus cops who allegedly tried to extort money from Eric Tan, the employer of Indonesian maid, Lilis. It is learnt that one of them is a political party branch chief.
Petaling Jaya district police chief Assistant Commissioner Mazlan Mansor, however, declined to comment when asked on the identity of the men being sought by police to help investigations into the claim.
“I cannot tell you who they are but we are trying to contact them,” said Mazlan.
On the contradicting statements given by Lilis and Tan, Mazlan said both parties have been called up to have their statements recorded again.
In The Malay Mail report yesterday, Tan, who denied the allegation made by his former maid that she was abused by them, said that two men claiming to be from Sungai Buloh police station told him that they could help settle the case involving Lilis’s.
He claimed that the two men, one in his 20s and the other in his 40s, were not in police uniform when they came to his house in Bandar Sri Damansara at 11pm on Saturday.
He said he was shocked by their presence but let his guard down since he had spoken to an offi cer handling the case earlier in the afternoon.
Tan claimed the older man was also rude as he was comparing Tan’s wife to an animal.
But Tan defended her and ticked off the man, who threatened to arrest Tan’s wife and remand her for seven days.
When Tan asked the man to produce his authority card, the man declined.
This prompted Tan to contact the offi cer in charge of the case and handed the phone to the older man.
After talking on the phone, the man returned the phone to Tan and sped off in a car.
On Monday, The Malay Mail carried a story on the 27- year-old maid, who claimed that she was abused by her employers for four months.
The maid claimed that she is a single mother with two children aged two and 12.
Lilis claimed she was subjected to abuse soon after she started working at her employer’s house.
She claimed she was slapped for making the smallest mistakes and was made to work for long stretches with only four hours of sleep every day.
By MUZLIZA MUSTAFA
