Africans arrested for fraud

Africans arrested for fraud

JAKARTA (JP): City Police have arrested six African men for
allegedly cheating people into handing over their US Dollar
banknotes based on the promise that the amount would be doubled
after a certain period of time.

"The six men operated in three groups, but they conducted a
similar operation. Another suspect is still at large," city
police detectives chief Sr. Comr. Harry Montolalu said on
Thursday.

Harry said that the suspects, who were arrested separately on
Wednesday, told the victims that they could double their original
amount of dollars.

"They mesmerized their victims so that the latter did not
realize that the banknotes had already been replaced with black
papers by the suspects," he said.

Suspects Bah Ismail and William Prowd were arrested at a hotel
in the Melawai area of South Jakarta; Fonbas K. and Nyampa
Richard Alain were caught on Jl. Percetakan Negara in Central
Jakarta; and Ous Mane Djibra Techhnya and Raymond Christian,
alias Christ, were nabbed at a hotel on Jl. Tanjung Duren in West
Jakarta.

Police managed to seize a suitcase full of black papers,
chemicals and two plastic bottles which had contained chemicals
from the suspects, Harry said.

The victims, identified as Lieske and Sukisman, admitted to
having lost thousands of dollars, he said. (jun)