KUALA LUMPUR: Actor, social media personality and entrepreneur, Wak Doyok, claims to have suffered a loss of over RM3 million due to being defrauded by his company's business partners.
The 45-year-old artiste, whose real name is Mohd Azwan Md Nor, said he realised that his business partners, who are also a married couple, had cheated him after conducting an investigation on them.
"As a result of the investigation, I found that they were involved in falsifying documents, abuse of power, breach of trust and money laundering.
"They have also emptied the office premises and taken away all the goods and equipment belonging to the company without my knowledge.
"I only found out recently that the premises had been vacated and a total of 20 staff had also quit the company," he said in a Harian Metro report today.
Wak Doyok added that he was sad and disappointed because he had already invested about RM500,000 of his savings into the company.
"I had to sell land and other assets to invest in this business and didn't expect to be cheated by my own business partners.
"I have tried to negotiate amicably to resolve this case but the parties involved claim that they were the ones cheated and have taken legal action against me instead," he said.
Wak Doyok added that he had also made 10 police reports against them at the Bukit Jelutong Police Station since July 2.
"I have also engaged the services of a lawyer and hope that the truth will be on my side," he said.
Despite being sad, Wak Doyok added that he has picked himself up and continues on with his business as usual.
"I have ventured into a new business now. Actually, I was moved to share this fraud case to bring awareness to the community.
"Hopefully, this disclosure will to some extent help fellow artistes and the public to be more careful about conducting joint venture businesses because it involves a lot of scammers at the moment," he said.