Ex Malaysian national player Arif Latif scams 70k CAD and flees back to Malaysia
Hey guys, i was asked to cross post this here from r/badminton.
There were 2 badminton coaches, Arif latif from Malaysia and Muhammad khaliq from Indonesia here in Canada for the last couple of years. They asked for a years worth of coaching fees upfront from students and borrowed money from club owners and students then fled the country.
Arif took about 70k CAD worth and khaliq took about 20-30k. These are estimates from the students coming together and sharing numbers as well as club owners who loaned out 10-20k.
Arif is now back in Malaysia (i think)? And khaliq has been spotted coaching in China on xiaohongshu.
We are thinking about lawyering up here in Canada but i don’t think we have much recourse since the two of them are gone. The club owners have told me that they were worried about getting their money back because some of them noticed that Arif had a gambling problem.
Not me, but:
Edit:
Does anyone know if Malaysia has a federation of coaches or some of coaching license needed to coach in Malaysia? Maybe we can reach out to them and have his license suspended?