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Mon, 09/12/2011 - 08:58
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INDIAN POLICE SLAM BRAKES ON MICHAEL SOOSAI'S FREEDOM
By P. Vijian
CHENNAI, Sept 12 (Bernama) -- After nearly a year in a south Indian prison,
alleged Malaysian fraudster Michael Soosai's thought he could walk out a free
man -- only to find the police slamming the brakes on his freedom.
Last Thursday, he was released on bail from the Puzal Prison in Chennai,
where he was jailed since his arrest in August last year, for a series of local
fraud cases.
However, the police from the Krishnagiri district, about 230km from here,
slammed a car theft case on the 47-year-old, preventing him from leaving prison.
Soosai was then sent to Krishnagiri where a local court remanded him on
Friday morning and sent him to the Salem Central Prison.
"We have detained him in connection with a cheating case involving a car
worth about Rupees 10 lakhs (RM70,000).
"We have crucial evidence against him and recovered the vehicle. He is now
under remand," Krishnagiri Police Superintendent N. Kannan told Bernama in a
telephone interview Sunday.
According to a Krishnagiri police probe in 2009, Soosai had allegedly posed
as a 'Dr Sivakumar', one of his many pseudo names, and befriended local
businessman C. Vikranth to discuss a business prospect in Singapore.
During a meeting in a hotel, the Malaysian was said to have duped the
businessman into handing over his luxury Scorpion vehicle to him.
The Krishnagiri case reportedly adds to a litany of other fraud cases,
mostly cheating local Indians of their money and jewellery, after promising them
lucrative overseas jobs.
Soosai is also wanted by Malaysian police for a series of white-collar
crimes involving about RM1 million, and linked to the 2004 kidnap-cum-murder of
a Malaysian in south India.
Top Indian police officials have lamented that Malaysian authorities have
yet to seek Soosai's extradition, although the fugitive's name was listed on the
Interpol wanted list.
-- BERNAMA
CHENNAI, Sept 12 (Bernama) -- After nearly a year in a south Indian prison,
alleged Malaysian fraudster Michael Soosai's thought he could walk out a free
man -- only to find the police slamming the brakes on his freedom.
Last Thursday, he was released on bail from the Puzal Prison in Chennai,
where he was jailed since his arrest in August last year, for a series of local
fraud cases.
However, the police from the Krishnagiri district, about 230km from here,
slammed a car theft case on the 47-year-old, preventing him from leaving prison.
Soosai was then sent to Krishnagiri where a local court remanded him on
Friday morning and sent him to the Salem Central Prison.
"We have detained him in connection with a cheating case involving a car
worth about Rupees 10 lakhs (RM70,000).
"We have crucial evidence against him and recovered the vehicle. He is now
under remand," Krishnagiri Police Superintendent N. Kannan told Bernama in a
telephone interview Sunday.
According to a Krishnagiri police probe in 2009, Soosai had allegedly posed
as a 'Dr Sivakumar', one of his many pseudo names, and befriended local
businessman C. Vikranth to discuss a business prospect in Singapore.
During a meeting in a hotel, the Malaysian was said to have duped the
businessman into handing over his luxury Scorpion vehicle to him.
The Krishnagiri case reportedly adds to a litany of other fraud cases,
mostly cheating local Indians of their money and jewellery, after promising them
lucrative overseas jobs.
Soosai is also wanted by Malaysian police for a series of white-collar
crimes involving about RM1 million, and linked to the 2004 kidnap-cum-murder of
a Malaysian in south India.
Top Indian police officials have lamented that Malaysian authorities have
yet to seek Soosai's extradition, although the fugitive's name was listed on the
Interpol wanted list.
-- BERNAMA
