Man dupes travel firm owner of Rs 4 lakh

  • | Thursday | 23rd March, 2017

He showed Basha a bag, claiming it contained the money.The man asked Basha, a Pallavaram resident, to give Rs 4 lakh as advance and said he would take the rest later.Basha had only Rs 2 lakh and asked his friends Abdul Basha and Farooq to help him with Rs 2 lakh. Basha lodged a complaint with the Ice House police. CHENNAI: Police are looking for a middle-aged man, who conned the owner of a travel agency of Rs 4 lakh on Wednesday in exchange for Rs 25 lakh in foreign currency that turned out to be fake.Police said the man approached Amir Basha, who runs G R Travels in the Ice House locality of Triplicane, and told him he had Singapore dollars worth Rs 25 lakh that he was not able to exchange. As soon as they brought the cash, the man gave Basha the bag containing the `foreign currency' and left, saying he would had to give a ride home to a disabled friend and return to collect the remaining money.When failed to turn up, Basha and his friends checked the bag and found it contained photocopies of Singapore dollars.

CHENNAI: Police are looking for a middle-aged man, who conned the owner of a travel agency of Rs 4 lakh on Wednesday in exchange for Rs 25 lakh in foreign currency that turned out to be fake.Police said the man approached Amir Basha, who runs G R Travels in the Ice House locality of Triplicane, and told him he had Singapore dollars worth Rs 25 lakh that he was not able to exchange. He showed Basha a bag, claiming it contained the money.The man asked Basha, a Pallavaram resident, to give Rs 4 lakh as advance and said he would take the rest later.Basha had only Rs 2 lakh and asked his friends Abdul Basha and Farooq to help him with Rs 2 lakh. As soon as they brought the cash, the man gave Basha the bag containing the `foreign currency' and left, saying he would had to give a ride home to a disabled friend and return to collect the remaining money.When failed to turn up, Basha and his friends checked the bag and found it contained photocopies of Singapore dollars. Basha lodged a complaint with the Ice House police.

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