The Police arrested two persons yesterday, to facilitate investigations into an ongoing case of fraud and the extraction of property with false representations. They are a 30-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman, who were arrested after a police operation in Limassol.
The case was reported to the police yesterday by a 70-year-old resident of Larnaca.
According to the complainant, an unknown person, whom she had met through the internet, managed to extort from her, on three occasions, a sum of money totalling €5,000 under various pretexts. As stated by the complainant, she initially sent the unknown person, through two bank transfers to a foreign bank, a sum of money totalling €1,500, while she then handed over a sum of money totalling €3,500 to a man, indicated to her by the unknown person, whom she met in a parking lot in Limassol on 28 June 2022.
However, the complainant's online "friend" continued, under various pretexts, to ask her for money, which aroused suspicions in the 70-year-old woman, who made a complaint to the police yesterday.
After the complaint, members of the police put under surveillance a parking lot, in Limassol, where a new meeting had been arranged between the complainant and a person indicated by the unknown person, so that the 70-year-old woman could hand over more money.
During the surveillance, members of the police stopped a man who was moving suspiciously in the parking lot. It was found that he was a 30-year-old resident of Nicosia, and as it emerged from the police examinations, he is allegedly the same person who received the money from the complainant on June 28.
From the continuation of the police examinations, testimony was obtained against a 51-year-old woman, also a resident of Nicosia. Arrest warrants were issued against the 30-year-old man and the 51-year-old woman, under which they were arrested and detained to facilitate interrogations.
The Limassol CID is investigating the case.
The Limassol CID is investigating the case.
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