Four con artists captured

Four con artists captured

PEMALANG, Central Java (JP): The Police captured a gang of
four local traders, one of them a woman, suspected to have
swindled hundreds of million rupiah from their trading partners,
the Antara news agency reported on Saturday.

Chief of the district police Lt. Col. Soedibyo said the
suspects had been on the wanted list because they had often been
reported for cheating people.

He said the suspects claimed they could multiply their
partners' money and make them rich without toil as long as the
partners gave them a certain amount of money.

He said the gang's well-dressed members usually drove a sedan
with Jakarta license plates and used to bring along a suitcase
full of bank notes to impress their victims.

Soedibyo said five persons had reported to the police that
they had fallen victim to the gang. Each of them reported that
they had submitted tens of millions of rupiah to the gang but
with nothing in return as promised.(imn)