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Hype Malaysia
09-05-2025
- Hype Malaysia
(Video) SUV Crashes Into KFC Outlet In Perak, Leaving 1 Dead & 7 Injured
Cars and restaurants don't mix. One is a place to get your fried chicken fix and maybe 'Stone Water' from the ice cream machine, and the other is a two-ton missile that just happens to have seats in the back. Eating fried chicken has risks associated with it other than an imbalanced diet. With restaurants, roads, and parking lots so intimately chained together, however, it was an inevitability that a car would end up in a KFC, just like that time a Proton Saga driven by a 90-year-old. On the night of 8th May in Setiawan, Perak, a KFC near a main street traffic light intersection was blown wide open by a white Volvo SUV. The vehicle was reportedly driven by a 29-year-old lawyer who lost control after passing through the traffic lights. While it is not known as to why the car lost control, the chaos it left behind drew a large crowd. Tragically, the incident took the life of a 73-year-old woman and injured seven others, including a child. The group included two adult men, three adult women (one of whom was reportedly an elderly), and a young girl, aged 3 to 4. All victims were rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment. According to Manjung district police chief ACP Hasbullah Abd Rahman, the crash occurred at around 9:05pm at the traffic light intersection along Jalan Sitiawan–Lumut, right in front of the KFC restaurant. The vehicle was heading from Kampung Koh towards Sungai Wangi when it allegedly lost control, veered sharply to the right, and rammed through the front of the restaurant. The driver himself suffered minor injuries and is now in police custody, being investigated under Section 41(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987, which deals with causing death by reckless or dangerous driving. Police are currently urging witnesses to come forward to aid the investigation. If you saw the incident or have dashcam footage, you're asked to contact Insp Nur Syafiqah Baharudin at 012-637 5962 or 05-689 9072. At the same time, we extend our condolences to the family of the deceased, and we wish the other victims a smooth recovery. Sources: SinChew, MalayMail Gan contributed to this article.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Chinese nationals took $13M in ‘pig butchering' scam: DOJ
Three people, including two Chinese nationals, were arrested Tuesday for allegedly using shell companies to launder more than $13 million taken in investment scams called 'pig butchering.' Mingzhi Li, 24, aka 'Zheng Lin,' and Zeyue Jia, 23, aka 'Jiao Jiao Liu,' both of downtown Los Angeles; and Jun Shi, 55, of San Gabriel, made their initial appearances in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release. The scam involves thieves targeting victims who are 'gradually lured into making increasing monetary contributions, generally in the form of cryptocurrency, to a seemingly sound investment before the scammer disappears with the contributed monies,' according to the FDIC. In this case, Shi is accused of setting up the companies Magic Location Trading LLC and Stone Water Trading LLC in 2022 to serve as 'money service businesses that were formed for the purpose of remitting funds on behalf of third-party customers to other entities,' though they were never registered with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or the State of California, as required under federal law, prosecutors said. Bank accounts set up by Li and Jia 'received funds from investment fraud victims' through dozens of wire transfers, with more than $7.6 million going to Stone Water and $5.4 million going to Magic Trading, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said the trio then transferred the money to other accounts or overseas, sent it to individuals or used it for personal expenses — even though victims could see their fake investments in 'commodities such as gold contracts or virtual currency such as Bitcoin' on the web or a mobile app. 'Once funds are sent to scammer-controlled accounts, the purported investment platform often falsely shows significant gains on the purported investment, and the victims are thus induced to send more money for additional investments,' the release said. That money, however, was gone. The DOJ provided the example of a 72-year-old man from Minnesota who 'invested' in a digital platform called Enkuu by sending $75,000 to Stone Water and $250,000 to Magic Trading the month after that. 'He later was unable to withdraw any of his money from 'Enkuu,'' prosecutors said. Li and Jia, both citizens of China who came to the U.S. on student visas that are now expired, have been jailed without bail. Shi was released on $20,000 bond. Each faces charges of operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. Arraignment is scheduled for March 17. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
