PCB TO OPEN COUNTER FOR COMPLAINTS AGAINST GMI

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 5 (Bernama) -- The Public Complaints Bureau (PCB) will open a special counter in the city of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday for shopkeepers and traders to report on the losses and damages incurred during a demonstration last Saturday.

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department T.Murugiah said the
shopkeepers and traders were required to produce documents and proofs of their
losses and damages.

The complaints will enable the PCB to assist the shopkeepers and traders in
suing the organiser of the demonstration, the Movement for the Abolition of the
ISA (GMI) for their losses and damages, he told reporters here Wednesday.

The counter will be opened from 10am to 10pm.

He said the PCB was ready to cooperate with the Federal Territories United
Malays National Organisation (Umno) Youth Division, which had offered free legal
consultation to shopkeepers and traders who want to sue the GMI.

Murugiah on Tuesday received a complaint from the Petty Traders and Night
Market Traders Association, which claimed its members had suffered RM500,000
losses and damages due to the demonstration.

About 10,000 people and opposition party members took to the streets in the
capital in an anti-ISA demonstration on Saturday, forcing shops and shopping
complexes to shut down. (US$1=RM3.50)
-- BERNAMA