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    Auto parts fraudster jailed 14 months

    Fadley Faisal

    The Magistrate’s Court yesterday handed a 14-month jail sentence to a man who had defrauded people by duping them into buying auto parts.

    Magistrate Syaffina binti Shahif sentenced 27-year-old Zainal Amiruddin bin Zainal Aliuddin after he pleaded guilty earlier to scamming five people into believing that he could supply car parts that they were looking.

    Prosecutor Syafina binti Abdul Hadzid’s facts of the case revealed that the former uniformed personnel had been arrested on May 22 after an investigation was prompted by a series of police reports regarding a scam involving auto parts.

    The court further heard that the defendant would go through his victim’s social media platforms and offer to supply the parts, which ranged from mud flaps to an engine.

    On believing that the defendant was offering a legitimate service, the victims made payments to a bank account, only to receive no response when following up on their orders.

    The defendant was believed to have committed offences on six occasions – once in February and the rest in May, cheating just under BND4,000 from the five victims.

     

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