Fraudsters ‘check’ in prison
RIYADH: Police have arrested a gang accused of using fraudulent checks to withdraw hundreds of thousands of riyals. Officers investigated after a local airline company reported checks had been stolen from its accounting office. The company said one of them was used to withdraw SR1.9 million after the signature was forged. Police searched for the suspects and managed to arrest five people who are also accused of other thefts. They found SR400,000 and other checks belonging to a number of local companies after searching the gang’s apartment. Officers are still questioning the suspects to establish the extent of their criminal activities and whether they had other accomplices.
Three conmen in police net
RIYADH: Police have arrested three members of a gang involved in fraud cases. An Asian expatriate reported someone posing as a bank employee had called him, asking for his account details. He later found out that his account had been emptied. After running background checks they arrested the three suspects who later confessed to their crime. Citizens and expatriates have been warned not to give out their bank account details over the phone, especially passwords.
Oil tanker crash: Disaster averted
TAIF: Civil Defense and police successfully dealt with an accident on Wednesday involving two trucks, one of them carrying gasoline. The police closed the road in case the tank exploded. Police called in a specialist team that emptied the gasoline from the damaged truck into another one. Both drivers only suffered minor injuries.
Youth gunned down at home
BURAIDAH: Unidentified gunmen shot a young man and killed him in his house in a northern district in Buraidah. Police registered a case and searched for a suspect. The body was taken to Buraidah Central Hospital, Al-Jazirah newspaper reported on Wednesday.
— Compiled by Arab News
