:Police looking for suspect over scam worth RM111,000

TAWAU, Police is currently looking for a man who believed to have swindled some RM111,000 from a firm and they suspect the man had fled the country.

District police chief ACP Jaafar Mohd. Yussof said that the suspect who identified himself as Ah Fook contacted two diesel suppliers in the district and claiming to represent the firm in ordering some 36,000 liter of diesel in total and representative from the supplier delivered the diesel ordered on July 9.

Jaafar said the representatives went to the firm two days after delivery to collect the amount when the firm’s staff told them a man named Lim Kok Vun had collected the money on their behalf. Both suppliers lodged their report and police is currently investigating this case considered a commercial crime.

Jaafar said they believed both Ah Fook and Lim Kok Vun were the same person.

He said that the suspect ordered 12,000 liter of diesel from one of the supplier and ordered another batch of 24,000 liter from the other.

In another development, police is looking for a Bugis man aged 26 after an underage girl was found staying in his house at mile 5 Apas road. Jaafar said the girl’s parent lodged their report after their 15 year old daughter failed to return home for three days since July 10. He said police finally located the girl alone in the house. As the girl is underage, police is looking at this case as a rape case despite believing that the girl and the man are lovers. Jaafar also said that police had now a total of three rape cases within this month in which all involves underage girls.

In yet another case, police is classifying the death of 64 year old Shang Kui Yion as sudden death but is still waiting for the post mortem report.

Jaafar said that Shang who has a history of mental illness went to their cocoa orchard with her husband at mile 5, Apas road on July 14 but got separated and her husband after failing to locate her at around 5.00pm lodged a police report. He said a police team with the assistance of the dog unit finally located her lying face down in an area within the boundary of a rubber estate belonging to a neighbour.

`The deceased was found with a injured nose and we believe that no foul play took place but final conclusion could only be made after the post mortem report is completed’, he added.