: Police seek man over cheating cases

TAWAU: Two individuals fell for a trick after they were promised to have whatever money they gave will be doubled in yet another con job where a con man involved believed to have pocket in a sum of RM30 thousands from the two victims.

District police chief ACP Jaafar Mohd. Yussof in a press conference said that the duo made their respective police report on October 18, 2008, upon finding that their money indeed doubled in the form of hell’s money used in Chinese ritual.

He said the first victim, a Bugis lady aged 43 went to see the so called magic man in a hotel room on February 12, 2008 around 3.05pm and handed over RM25,000 and was asked to go outside the room until called upon by the suspect. `The suspect was later called in and was handed a school bag and was instructed to go home and not to open the bag until four days later or the magic will turn harmful’, he explained.

The victim followed the instruction and opened the bag four days later only to find the hell’s money in bundles. The second victim, a Bugis man aged 50 fell for the same scam when he visited the suspect on February 13, 2008 and again was asked to conduct the same course of action where he handed over RM5,000 thousand around 3.00pm.

He stated that there is possible other victims being con by the same suspect and urges them to report the matter to police where they can contact the commercial crime department by calling 089-75222.

The identity of the suspect was released to the press in the attempt to seek help from the general public in capturing him. Jaafar said that the suspect is known as Darick Mosipil @ Alex with identity card number 64126-12-5323 and believed him to be a Kadazan man.

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