KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 — Still coming to grips with her boyfriend’s disappearance along 238 others on Flight MH370, Sarah Bajc has now claimed to be the target of burglaries, a death threat and harassing phone calls in China.
Bajc, who is based in Beijing, alleged that the first of two break-ins took place a fortnight after the plane vanished on March 8, telling NBC News that she discovered telltale signs of an intruder courtesy of her own obsession with tidiness.
“Whoever came wasn’t very careful because I’m a real neat freak, so it was immediately apparent to me that some things had been moved,” she told NBC News.
“My housekeeper was out of town so it couldn’t have been her and I got home before my son got back. The password on my safe had been reset which happens when you try the wrong code three times.”
It is unclear if there was evidence of a forced entry at the home.
Bajc, whose American boyfriend Phillip Wood was among the 227 passengers on the flight, added that neighbours also alleged that they saw two people leaving her apartment two weeks after the first incident.
She again did not say if they had forced their way in or if anything was taken that time.
She also claims to have received a threat on her life via instant message around the same time as the first purported burglary.
The message reportedly said, “I am going to come and kill you next.” It is unclear if the threat is in any way related to the MH370.
Asides from the claimed threat, the NBC News report added that Bajc also received pornographic images and “creepy phone calls” from the China-based phone number. The nature of these were also not specified.
Bajc has been in the limelight following media reports of her following the plane’s disappearance on March 8.
Eight days after MH370 disappeared, Bajc posted a letter to Wood on Facebook, pleading with him to come home so that they could continue their unfinished Words with Friends game. The post was reported on by the Wall Street Journal, among others.
She later joined a group called the “The Families of MH370”, who dispute the official account of the events surrounding MH370 and which contend that the flight did not end in the Indian Ocean as investigators concluded based on satellite data.
The group this week penned an open letter demanding authorities release the proprietary satellite data from UK firm Inmarsat that was used to determine the plane’s final location.
They also previously sought for authorities to pursue a report based on an anonymous Russian intelligence source that the Boeing 777-200ER was hijacked by terrorists and flown to near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Wood, who was working as a technical storage executive in Kuala Lumpur, and Bajc — who is currently working as a schoolteacher in Beijing — were planning to start a new life together in Malaysia.
The couple’s plan was for Wood to travel back and forth from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing for the first six months this year, until Bajc could move to Kuala Lumpur where she had also found employment.
MH370 disappeared after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on March 8 with 239 people — 153 of them Chinese nationals — on board.
After two months of intensive search, the hunt has now been scaled back to an undersea operation in the southern Indian Ocean west of Australia that is expected to take between eight to 12 months.
