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        "id": 1539411,
        "msgid": "five-foreigners-held-for-fraud-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-05-23 00:00:00",
        "title": "Five foreigners held for fraud",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Five foreigners held for fraud JAKARTA (JP): Five Cameroonian and Congolese nationals, including a soccer player hired by a local club, were arrested this week for alleged fraud. The head of the immigration's control and supervision department, Zaiman Nurmatias, said two of the five men had also overstayed their visas. Police confiscated two electric irons, sheets of black and white papers the size of U.S. dollar notes, three bottles of chemicals and a black bag.",
        "content": "<p>Five foreigners held for fraud<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Five Cameroonian and Congolese nationals,<br>\nincluding a soccer player hired by a local club, were arrested<br>\nthis week for alleged fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the immigration's control and supervision<br>\ndepartment, Zaiman Nurmatias, said two of the five men had also<br>\noverstayed their visas.<\/p>\n<p>Police confiscated two electric irons, sheets of black and<br>\nwhite papers the size of U.S. dollar notes, three bottles of<br>\nchemicals and a black bag.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Lewono, who plays for Jakarta soccer club Persija,<br>\nadmitted the group swindled their victims into believing they<br>\ncould increase the amount of US$30,000 to as much as $80,000.<\/p>\n<p>The men would tell their victims, mostly foreign tourists, to<br>\ngive them the money. The group would then brings sheets of the<br>\nblack and white papers to the victims, with elaborate<br>\ninstructions to wash them in a special solution after three days<br>\nto increase the amount. The men then absconded before the fraud<br>\nwas discovered.<\/p>\n<p>\"They all denied their involvement in the scheme, and blamed<br>\none another instead,\" Zaiman said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The other men are Ferdinand Ngapnya, Theodore Bokia Mbondebeka<br>\nBokia, Yosef and Eenel Mpanca.<\/p>\n<p>Lewono claimed he had once seen Dendy, an Indonesian friend,<br>\nproducing fake U.S. dollar notes using the equipment confiscated<br>\nby the police.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there were similarities in the technique used in<br>\nthis case with that employed by a Cameroonian arrested in April.<\/p>\n<p>Erick Berlain Nguefack Fomenteu, 24, allegedly defrauded two<br>\npeople of Rp 10 million and $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said Fomenteu and the five men are believed to be part<br>\nof the same syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>The foreigners are awaiting deportation at the immigration<br>\ndepartment's quarantine center in Kalideres, West Jakarta. (cst)<\/p>",
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