Police detain 14 Nigerian men aged between 20 and 30, and a local woman in two raids in the Klang Valley.
KUALA LUMPUR: A 40-year-old woman lost RM107,350 of her savings to a man whom she believed was going to marry her.
The victim, a civil servant, had befriended the man named ‘Aakil Muhsi’ or ‘Azim’, through Facebook.
Following a report she lodged, police detained 14 Nigerian men aged between 20 and 30s, and a local woman in two raids in the Klang Valley on Wednesday.
Cheras district police chief ACP Chong Kok Sin told a media conference here today, that the suspect persuaded the victim to bank money into his account after promising to marry her.
He said the man requested for more money from the woman last August, purportedly for securing the release of his USD1 million which the Immigration department in Kota Kinabalu had seized.
The vicitm then banked in RM107,350 in stages, into eight accounts, said Chong.
He said police seized seven automated teller machine (ATM) cards, nine laptops and 26 mobile phones during the raids.
- BERNAMA
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