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JOHOR BARU: Twenty people including a Singaporean man and two Vietnamese women were issued with a RM5, 000 compound notice each here for violating Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOP).
Monday, 15 Feb 2021 03:57 PM MYT
BY BEN TAN
According to the police, the victim sent the money in 64 transactions to 10 bank accounts from July to December last year. Shutterstock pic
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JOHOR BARU, Feb 15 A 78-year-old man here was cheated of RM3.81 million after he fell for a grant aid scam using the International Monetary Fund (IMF) name through social media.
According to the police, he sent the money in 64 transactions to 10 bank accounts from July to December last year.
Johor Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Salleh Abdullah said the man believed he was cheated after he failed to secure the IMF aid grant as promised.
JOHOR BARU: Police have busted a house break-in and car theft syndicate with the arrests of two men and a woman here.
Iskandar Puteri OCPD Asst Comm Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said the suspects, between the ages of 30 and 53, were arrested during two separate raids at around 8.45pm on Monday (Jan 18). Their arrests came following a report lodged by a 43-year-old contractor whose friend s house at Taman Bukit Indah had been broken into and the latter s car stolen on Saturday (Jan 16). The complainant went inside his friend s house and found it in a mess. The suspects had stolen various items amounting to RM50,000, ACP Dzulkhairi said, adding that the victim was working in Singapore at that time.