FIFTEEN years ago, a woman of Thai descent named Boonsom Boonyanit was told by her son that her land, situated in Penang, had been sold by a con-woman and a forger to a Malaysian registered company. The con-woman had been able to do it by convincing the buyer that she was indeed Boonsom Boonyanit and was thus able, through forgery of the instrument of transfer, to convey the property to the buyer.
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