POLICE STOP DUBAI-BOUND ELECTRICAL GOODS SCAM

SHAH ALAM (Selangor, Malaysia), May 13 (Bernama) -- The Selangor police seized a consignment of electrical goods worth about RM400,000 (US$133,222) bound for Dubai in a scam devised by a Pakistani syndicate at North Port, Port Klang near here Thursday.

State CID chief ACP Chong Mun Phing said the goods, which were made up of six washing machines and 50 refrigerators, were procured by three Pakistani men from local suppliers by issuing post-dated cheques.

He said the police and the Customs Department stopped the shipment of the goods at about 11am with the assistance of a forwarding agent.

Members of the syndicate left the country on April 24 after fleecing unsuspecting suppliers of RM1.5 million (US$499,583) worth of LCD televisions, laptops, washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners by issuing post-dated cheques, Chong told reporters here Friday.

He said a company by the name of Zeerada Sdn Bhd with an address given at Pusat Perniagaan Jelatek, Hulu Klang, Ampang, was purportedly used in the scam.

"Six police reports were made on the scam with the first one received two days after the syndicate members left the country.

"The syndicate issued post-dated cheques payable between two weeks and one month," he said, adding that the police believed other forwarding agents were also used by the syndicate.

Chong said the police had sought the assistance of Interpol and the
Pakistani Embassy in Kuala Lumpur to locate Ali Saqih Ali Sapdar, 41, Anuar Muhammad Khalid, 28, and Sardae Zaki Hussain, 23, to assist in the investigation into the case.